Hi
I’m working on a Rails app for quite some time now. I had some problems
with umlauts; I found workarounds but don’t like them really. So I
wanted to ask if I’m the only one with these problems. Basically, I’ve
set up my app and my database to work with utf-8. This works fine for
all data that is processed by ActionController / ActionView. I can enter
data with umlauts and the data is rendered perfectly in a view. But:
-
ActionMailer cannot handle static text with umlauts in a template. I
have to convert the static text to ISO-8859 ! Why is that ?? -
I use rfpdf to generate pdf-docs. I have to convert data from my
models to utf-8 to get the umlauts in the pdf. Why ist that ? My
database is configured for utf-8 so I thougth my model objects are utf-8
already ?? -
The Submit Tag Helper does not handle Umlauts. I have to convert the
button text to utf-8 with IConv. Hmm …
My workaround is to use IConv to convert all those strings to utf-8 or -
in the case of ActionMailer - to ISO-8859. It works but is really ugly.
Any help to a “dryer” solution is very welcome !
Gernot
