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Norman Clarke

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Tuesday, July 20 2010
4807 ERROR Encoding::UndefinedConversionError: "\xC3" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Norman Clarke
    Norman Clarke commented at 2:16 PM

    You also need to make sure you go outside the 7-bit range to see the problem as well. Here's a trivial example that shows the problem:

    ["ü".force_encoding("UTF...
  • Norman Clarke
    Norman Clarke commented at 2:06 PM

    @Serge

    UTF-8 and ASCII are compatible encodings: ASCII is a proper subset of UTF-8. Try it with, for example, ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 and you'get get a different r...
Thursday, July 08 2010
5028 AS::MB::Chars#slice! doesn't operate in-place; guide docs are out of date was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Norman Clarke
    Norman Clarke commented at 9:45 PM

    No problem. Here's the commit without the doc updates, and rebased against the current master.
Thursday, July 01 2010
5028 AS::MB::Chars#slice! doesn't operate in-place; guide docs are out of date was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Norman Clarke
    • Tag changed from activesupport, docs, multibyte to activesupport, docs, multibyte, patch
    by Norman Clarke at 3:12 PM

    Patch attached. Sorry for the extra-bold OMG SLICE!!!!! line above, not sure why that happened. :)
  • Norman Clarke
    Norman Clarke created the ticket at 3:10 PM

    The patch I will attach fixes a few remaining issues with AS::Multibyte::Chars:

    • #slice! was not operating in place
    • On 1.9, #strip!, #lstrip! and #rstrip! were ...
Wednesday, June 30 2010
4717 [PATCH] Fix ActiveSupport::Multibyte::Chars#slice for empty strings when star... was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Norman Clarke
    • Tag changed from activesupport, chars, multibyte, patch to activesupport, chars, multibyte, patch, verified
    • Assigned user set to José Valim
    by Norman Clarke at 1:51 PM

    This no longer applies to Rails master after recent changes; here's an updated patch that now applies.

    +1 on this, it's a simple change that makes the behavior ...
5011 Update Active Support's Unicode support to 5.2 was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Norman Clarke
    Norman Clarke commented at 3:35 AM

    Eh, wrong ticket number in the patch file. Sorry, Re-uploading.
  • Norman Clarke
    • Tag changed from activesupport, unicode to activesupport, multibyte, patch, unicode
    by Norman Clarke at 3:34 AM
  • Norman Clarke
    Norman Clarke created the ticket at 3:31 AM

    Unicode 5.2 was released in October 2009. Rails is currently using 5.1; I'll attach a patch that updates Active Support's Unicode database to the current versio...
4646 [BUG] [PATCH] ActiveSupport::Multibyte::Chars concatenation with #+ (plus) me... was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Norman Clarke
    • Tag changed from activesupport, bug, multibyte, patch to activesupport, bug, multibyte, patch, verified
    • Importance changed from to Medium
    by Norman Clarke at 1:30 AM

    Looks like this one doesn't apply any more. Here's an updated patch which applies against the current Rails master.