Preventing HTML character entities in locale files from getting munged by Rails3 xss protection

Question

We\'re building an app, our first using Rails 3, and we\'re having to build I18n in from the outset. Being perfectionists, we want real typography to be used in our views: dashe

Answer 1

I think it isn't a good idea to use use "raw", you could try with yml string like this

en:
  hello:
    This generates a text paragraph for HTML. " " à @ ' All this text, which you can find in
    these lines, is being concatenated together to one single text node, and then put
    into the body of the 
 ... 
 tag. ↂↀऊᎣᏍᏮ⁜℺℻⊛⍟⎬⎨⏏♞♝⚫⚬✱✰✭❺❻➣➱➲⬡⬕

HTML

This generates a text paragraph for HTML. " " à @ ' All this text, which you can find in these lines, is being concatenated together to one single text node, and then put into the body of the <p> ... </p> tag. ↂↀऊᎣᏍᏮ⁜℺℻⊛⍟⎬⎨⏏♞♝⚫⚬✱✰✭❺❻➣➱➲⬡⬕

browser view

This generates a text paragraph for HTML. " " à @ ' All this text, which you can find in these lines, is being concatenated together to one single text node, and then put into the body of the 
 ... 
 tag. ↂↀऊᎣᏍᏮ⁜℺℻⊛⍟⎬⎨⏏♞♝⚫⚬✱✰✭❺❻➣➱➲⬡⬕