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theepauk
on Dec 27, 2012
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Rails is omakase
He lost me at "á la carte". Incidentally, no proper unicode support is why I never used rails (or ruby) for anything more than a tutorial. Yes, that was a long time ago.
steveklabnik
on Dec 27, 2012
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This is FUD. Rails actually does have UTF-8 support, and it's on by default, to the point of fixing bugs in IE to make sure everything is UTF-8:
http://intertwingly.net/blog/2010/07/29/Rails-and-Snowmen
fbuilesv
on Dec 27, 2012
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This has nothing to do with Ruby or Rails. Setting a proper HTML encoding (UTF-8) would fix it.
espadrine
on Dec 27, 2012
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Another way to phrase this is that DHH forgot to add
<meta charset="utf-8" />
Beyond that, the expression isn't "á la carte". It comes from the french "à la carte" (grave accent, not acute).
theepauk
on Dec 27, 2012
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Hence "incidentally". Couldn't help but to make a connection.
bdcravens
on Dec 27, 2012
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Yes, you could help it. The connection you made applies to any language/framework.
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