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Reputation: 3386

Rails 5: 'humanize' phrases that start with an accented character doesn't capitalize them

Localization is working fine, as per the official documentation. However I have found that Rails' humanize method doesn't correctly capitalize the first character of a sentence if it's accented.

For example, if I have in config/locales/fr.yml:

fr:
  about_me: "à propos de moi"

... and in the view:

<%= t("about_me").humanize %>

... the output in the browser is

à propos de moi

... whereas it should be

A propos de moi

If I change the à to a, humanize works as expected.

Note that in French accents on capital letters are sometimes omitted but let's leave that aside. I'd be happy with:

À propos de moi

Do I just need to hardcode the capital letters in the YAML files to work around this? Naturally I'd prefer not to resort to this.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 396

Answers (1)

mu is too short
mu is too short

Reputation: 434965

I'd recommend doing it in the YAML, capitalization depends on the language and the context; for example, German capitalizes all nouns but English only capitalizes proper nouns and the accent issue in French that you're already aware of, the relationship between ß and SS in German, etc. Getting things right though simple-minded string manipulation is very error prone. You're better off treating human-readable strings as opaque and immutable pieces of data that you pull out of your I18N/L10N string database and give to the user as-is.

This is more work but being correct is sort of important.

Upvotes: 1

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