Localizing "yes"/"no" does not work?

Rails
1

Hello, i have a strange issue, but maybe i just do not know some special
conventions.

If i put

fr:
yes: ‘oui’
no: ‘non’

in my fr.yml localization file, then <% t ‘yes’ %> produces ‘Yes’
instead of ‘oui’.
However any keys other than ‘yes’ and ‘no’ work fine: if i put

fr:
y: ‘oui’
n: ‘non’

then <% t ‘y’ %> gives ‘oui’ as expected.

Can anyone please explain to my why i cannot use ‘yes’ and ‘no’ as keys
in localization files?
Thanks.

Alexey.

2

On May 13, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Alexey M. wrote:

in my fr.yml localization file, then <% t ‘yes’ %> produces ‘Yes’
instead of ‘oui’.

Just a guess, but it might be a YAML thing. Try putting this:

fr:
“yes”: ‘oui’
“no”: ‘non’

To force the keys to be simple strings rather than thinking the bare
yes == true

-Rob

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3

Thanks Rob, your suggestion works!
I hope this is just a little weird yaml thing that has nothing to do
with rails :).

Alexey.

4

It has been just point out to me that “yes” and “no” are keywords in
YAML.

Alexey.