# L10n-simplified-0.9 died in Ruby 1.9.1 / Rails 2.3.3 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [September 28, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/l10n-simplified-0-9-died-in-ruby-1-9-1-rails-2-3-3/176295 "2009-09-28T18:50:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fernan2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/c5a1d2/32.png) [@fernan2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fernan2)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/l10n-simplified-0-9-died-in-ruby-1-9-1-rails-2-3-3/176295/1 "2009-09-28T18:50:48Z")
As lot of people, I suposse, I’m trying to move my Rails 2.1.2 app to the newer versions of Ruby and Rails. And my first serious trouble is that l10n-simplified-0.9 doesn’t work, and there isn’t a newer version. That’s important for me, because my application is Spanish!! ¿Someone has a solution for this? ---
**Author:** ![fernan2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/c5a1d2/32.png) [@fernan2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fernan2)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/l10n-simplified-0-9-died-in-ruby-1-9-1-rails-2-3-3/176295/2 "2009-09-28T20:21:01Z")
Fernando C. wrote: > As lot of people, I suposse, I’m trying to move my Rails 2.1.2 app to > the newer versions of Ruby and Rails. And my first serious trouble is > that l10n-simplified-0.9 doesn’t work, and there isn’t a newer version. > That’s important for me, because my application is Spanish!! > > ¿Someone has a solution for this? Solved!! First line of file must be # encoding: UTF-8 That allows you to use strings like ‘no es un número’ (with ú, non-US-ASCII character) ---
**Author:** ![fernan2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/c5a1d2/32.png) [@fernan2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fernan2)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 8:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/l10n-simplified-0-9-died-in-ruby-1-9-1-rails-2-3-3/176295/3 "2009-09-29T20:54:31Z")
Fernando C. wrote: > Fernando C. wrote: > > > As lot of people, I suposse, I’m trying to move my Rails 2.1.2 app to > > the newer versions of Ruby and Rails. And my first serious trouble is > > that l10n-simplified-0.9 doesn’t work, and there isn’t a newer version. > > That’s important for me, because my application is Spanish!! > > > > ¿Someone has a solution for this? ¡Hola Fernando! I’m the original author of L10n Simplified. I stopped maintaining it because Rails 2.2 has this functionality natively built in. However, feel free to send patches, and I will happily apply them. Did you consider using the native I18N stuff in Rails when you move to 2.3? Kind regards, Jesper Rønn-Jensen [http://justaddwater.dk/](http://justaddwater.dk/) ---
**Author:** ![fernan2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/c5a1d2/32.png) [@fernan2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fernan2)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/l10n-simplified-0-9-died-in-ruby-1-9-1-rails-2-3-3/176295/4 "2009-09-30T20:03:17Z")
Jesper Rønn-jensen wrote: > Fernando C. wrote: > > > Fernando C. wrote: > > > > > As lot of people, I suposse, I’m trying to move my Rails 2.1.2 app to > > > the newer versions of Ruby and Rails. And my first serious trouble is > > > that l10n-simplified-0.9 doesn’t work, and there isn’t a newer version. > > > That’s important for me, because my application is Spanish!! > > > > > > ¿Someone has a solution for this? > > ¡Hola Fernando! > I’m the original author of L10n Simplified. I stopped maintaining it > because Rails 2.2 has this functionality natively built in. > > However, feel free to send patches, and I will happily apply them. > > Did you consider using the native I18N stuff in Rails when you move to > 2.3? > > Kind regards, > Jesper Rønn-Jensen > [http://justaddwater.dk/](http://justaddwater.dk/) I’m a little afraid of moving to newer versions, because if every file with non-US characters must be marked with # encoding: UTF-8 , it will be very messy!! Probably I’ll wait until someone realises that we need some default encoding option in config.sys… About your patches, it’s easy: you must begin the lang\_es.rb file (and probably most of the lang\_xx.rb) with the line: # encoding: UTF-8 Thank you!!