Re: ActiveSupport::Multibyte for better Unicode support

ok so ActiveSupport::Multibyte would work with SJIS and EUC-JP but it seems some extra work from someone who understand those encodings.

well, I
think if ActiveSupport::Multibyte gets integrated into rails with
decent docs (docs that includes writting plugins for other encoding)
I'm
sure you have a lot more chance to see a Japanese guru sending you a
patch. if it does not get integrated, they won't know about it. or
won't care cuz it ain't mainstream.

and I am using utf-8 a good 80% of the time anyway, so I'm totally with the motion.

On 9/26/06, Thijs van der Vossen < t.vandervossen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 26 Sep 2006, at 24:30 , Pete Yandell wrote:
> On 26/09/2006, at 12:49 AM, Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov wrote:
>> On 25-sep-2006, at 5:06, David Goodlad wrote:
>>> I can't see any real downside to supporting UTF-8 out of the box
>>> in Rails.
>>
>> Tell it to the Japanese and the Chinese railers. I wonder how long
>> you will stand before you get your ass served :-)
>
> Why? It's not like Rails supports Japanese or Chinese encodings out
> of the box now. How is going from supporting just ASCII to
> supporting UTF-8 taking anything away from Japanese or Chinese
> railers?
>
> Like David said, what exactly is the downside to default UTF-8
> support? Who does it hurt, how, and why?

There's no downside to default UTF-8 support, but it would be nice if
switching from the default to Shift-JIS or EUC is going to be as easy
as changing $KCODE = 'utf-8' to  $KCODE = 'sjis'.

If you want this, please add Shift-JIS and/or EUC support in
ActiveSupport::Multibyte and send us a patch.

Kind regards,
Thijs

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