[Rails] Re: Re: HTML character codes in ActionMailer subject

Hassan Schroeder wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:35 PM, jhaagmans <jaap.haagmans@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> > We have our e-mail subjects stored in I18n locale files. For the
>>> > English version of the website, we had no problem, but now we're
>>> > translating to German, which uses a lot of symbols like &uuml; and
>>> > &Uuml; for example. We store them as character codes in the YAML
>>> > files,
>
>> Because the subject lines are used in our website as well. xHTML
>> strict needs our "strange" characters to be character codes.
>
> ? What makes you think that? Or to put it another way: no, it doesn't
> :-)
>

Right. In both HTML 4 and XHTML, any Unicode character is valid.

But even if that weren't so, you should be storing the actual "strange"
characters and escaping them on output. And you've just discovered why.

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