Archive for August, 2008

Rails And JSON Containing Unicode Characters

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, Rails 2.1 natively supports incoming JSON requests. Unfortunately, it still struggles with JSON data containing non-ASCII characters.

According to the JSON spec, JSON fully supports UTF-8 encoded text, so with a few exceptions it generally should not be necessary to escape non-ASCII characters with \u Unicode escape sequences. [...]

It’s been a while…

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

I realized that it’s been quite a while since my last update. Unfortunately it seems like the amount of interesting stuff I have to write about is inversely proportional to the spare time I have available for writing…

Anyway, I figure I’ll try to get back into the habit of publishing smaller posts, but [...]