Oct 24th, 2006
International support, tooltips, and improved alerts/invites
We have received terrific feedback and lots of traffic from outside of the US. As a result, we have switched over to UTF-8 as our default character set and made the necessary changes to display international characters properly.
New users can now take advantage of our help icons to get instant assistance with our interface and the various features it supports. You can click on any of the question marks to the right of the headers to view the help content.
Comment Alerts and Invites are now emailed with the sender’s username in the from address. This should help your team members recognize who the email is from more and not perceive it as spam. The reply-to address is now set to be your email address so that team members can reply directly to comment alerts and invites as well.
I just went through your presentation on Google Video and it was very insightful of RoR.
I myself struggled with the decision of using RoR or django. At the end of the day, the main deciding factor became internationalization support and RoR just had no support for it so I’ve gone down the django road. But seeing this new feature, I’d like to know how hard was internationalization support for you guys? Last time I checked, alot of code didn’t work right with UTF strings and other issues. I’d love to hear about your experience