internationalization options

[Chuck-49]

Hi,

I'm new to ruby and rails. I need support for for localized pages,
pages with multilingual content, date/time formats, and calendar and
time zone calculations.

Initially, I asked someone on the ICU project
<http://www.icu-project.org/> and they directed me to ICU4R
<http://icu4r.rubyforge.org/>. I thought that this was my solution
until I scrolled down and found this comment:
   "The code is slow and inefficient yet, is still highly
experimental, so can have many security and memory leaks, bugs,
inconsistent documentation, incomplete test suite. Use it at your own
risk."

Next, I found this link:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/InternationalizationComparison

Globalize seems like it's the most up-to-date and best supported
option. I know that this is the Globalize list, but I wanted to ask
if I should consider anything other than Globalize. Does any other
option even compare?

thanks,
Chuck

[sauy7]

Try here: http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/20

On Nov 2, 2007, at 8:44 PM, Chuck wrote:

Hi,

I'm new to ruby and rails. I need support for for localized pages, pages with multilingual content, date/time formats, and calendar and time zone calculations.

Initially, I asked someone on the ICU project <http://www.icu-project.org/> and they directed me to ICU4R <http://icu4r.rubyforge.org/>. I thought that this was my solution until I scrolled down and found this comment:

  "The code is slow and inefficient yet, is still highly experimental, so can have many security and memory leaks, bugs, inconsistent documentation, incomplete test suite. Use it at your own risk."

Next, I found this link:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/InternationalizationComparison

Globalize seems like it's the most up-to-date and best supported option. I know that this is the Globalize list, but I wanted to ask if I should consider anything other than Globalize. Does any other option even compare?

thanks,

Chuck

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