# Ruby on rails international & BIRT integration?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-international-birt-integration/59541>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 3, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-international-birt-integration/59541 "2006-05-03T23:49:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![jooray](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jooray](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jooray)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-international-birt-integration/59541/1 "2006-05-03T23:49:12Z")

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Hello,

I see, that Rails is quite english-centric. I am developing some webs,  
that are not primarily in English. I have a few questions:

- besides turning of plurals, what should I take care? How to use utf-8  
for all data and converting it from local charsets to utf-8?
- how do I make my page multilingual (i.e. adding english support  
later)? Is there something like gettext support? Is there a multilingual  
scaffold support? (So I’ll have a web interface where I can translate  
all the messages used in application).
- Is there some web/wiki page talking about internationalization issues  
in Rails? Should we start one?

One more question not about internationalization: is there some BIRT  
(Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool) integration? Or preferable  
way to make reports (PDF, HTML, …) from my existing model?

Thanks,

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Juraj.
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**Author:** ![jooray](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jooray](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jooray)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 9:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-international-birt-integration/59541/2 "2006-05-04T09:21:57Z")

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Google: UTF-8 rails  
Google: rails globalize  
Google: ruby Pdf writer

HTH

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**Author:** ![jooray](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jooray](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jooray)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-international-birt-integration/59541/3 "2006-05-04T14:13:45Z")

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Hello,

> Google: ruby Pdf writer

well, I wanted [BIRT](http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/)  
integration, not another plugin to write PDF documents.

And I wanted some hints for i18n site creation (how to set up rails  
correctly), I know about globalize. For example I don’t know in which  
character set does data from browser come…

Juraj.

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**Author:** ![jooray](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jooray](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jooray)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-international-birt-integration/59541/4 "2006-05-04T14:50:19Z")

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Hi,

On Thu, 4 May 2006 14:13:45 +0200  
Juraj B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> > Google: ruby Pdf writer
> 
> well, I wanted [BIRT](http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/)  
> integration, not another plugin to write PDF documents.
> 
> And I wanted some hints for i18n site creation (how to set up rails  
> correctly), I know about globalize. For example I don’t know in which  
> character set does data from browser come…

Did you try Ruby-GetText-Package ?  
[http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-howto-rails.html](http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-howto-rails.html)

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**Author:** ![jooray](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jooray](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jooray)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 7:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-international-birt-integration/59541/5 "2006-05-04T19:49:47Z")

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Hello,

> Did you try Ruby-GetText-Package ?  
> [http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-howto-rails.html](http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-howto-rails.html)

thank you, this is exactly what I’ve been looking for.

Juraj.

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**Author:** ![jooray](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jooray](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jooray)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-international-birt-integration/59541/6 "2006-05-04T14:39:49Z")

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Juraj B. wrote:

> well, I wanted [BIRT](http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/)  
> integration, not another plugin to write PDF documents.

The BIRT site contains an article about Integrating BIRT with PHP. Try  
to use ruby  
code and rails funtions instead of PHP.  
[BIRT BIRT | BIRT](http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/deploy/usingPHP.php)

Simo  
AddSW.it