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due to the ruby/rails used in nb6, there is not a lot of i18n or encoding support and this had led already to some confusion with users. Thus think it can be helpful if olh or rel notes and/or faq could mention some things about this. Here is some text that might be used as a starting point, based on some emails with Tor and others or from info in various i18n issues on ruby module. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NetBeans Ruby and Rails functionality related to use of multibyte or extended ascii characters. This note is meant to explain about the limitations on the use of multibyte or extended ascii in the Ruby and Rails supported by Netbeans. Netbeans itself does not prohibit the use of multibyte in ruby or rails project and file names, and in file contents where it could be data or values. However, in general, Ruby and Rails themselves do not support the use of extended ascii or multibyte. And this can be seen by doing ruby or rails commands or operations from the command line outside of NetBeans. Some guidelines for Ruby: - Ruby identifiers are consist of a-zA-Z0-9_ ( english basic alphabetic characters only, decimal digits, and the underscore character - Ruby class name and module names are constants. They should begin with upper case letters ([A-Z]). Since NetBeans file and project names are used as a basis for names of ruby and rails files that will be processed by ruby and rails compiler and other programs, it means use of multibyte and extended ascii in ruby and rails project and file names and contents should be avoided. As part of netbeans ruby and rails functionality, in the creation of a ruby or rails project or file, a check is done to see if a Ruby name is "safe" ([a-zA-Z0-9_]) and if not, will generate warnings (but not errors) in the create project dialogs (for Ruby and Rails projects), in the new file dialog (for classes, modules, tests), and in the Rename refactoring "new name" dialog. Thus its not supported to use other characters than the safe ones mentioned above in names of NetBeans ruby and rails project, files, class, variables, methods, controllers, and other parts. This includes creating tests and generating rdocs.
I will add this information to the Ruby FAQ at: http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/RubyFAQ
I've created an FAQ at: http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/RubyFAQ
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