Re: i18n hell

2006-04-24 Thread Jarek Zgoda
Martin Blais napisaƂ(a): > See > http://furius.ca/antiorm/ for something simple that works well. I'd like to know what is this module/library good for *before* I start downloading it. "Almost like ORM but not exactly" is rather vague term and can denote anything. Is it dishwasher? Or microwave ov

Re: i18n hell

2006-04-24 Thread Martin Blais
g mangled. I know these > > frameworks employ ORM so you don't need to write SQL and that worries > > me because I tried this on Rails and it wouldn't work. > > Frequently asked question to people who are burning in i18n hell: are > you using unicode strings or byt

Re: i18n hell

2006-04-24 Thread Serge Orlov
I tried this on Rails and it wouldn't work. Frequently asked question to people who are burning in i18n hell: are you using unicode strings or byte strings? Unicode string means that type(your_string) is unicode, it does not mean you keep utf-8 encoded text in python byte strings. AFAIK

i18n hell

2006-04-23 Thread fyleow
I just spent hours trying to figure out why even after I set my SQL table attributes to UTF-8 only garbage kept adding into the database. Apparently you need to execute "SET NAMES 'utf8'" before inserting into the tables. Does anyone have experience working with other languages using Django or Tur