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

Are you aware of the html_safe method that can be used in helpers? I am not sure if I totally understand the problem here since I have never worked with I18n, but would it be possible to use a custom helper that determines if the characters should not be escaped and return "string".html_safe, and if it should be escaped, return "string".

Or possibly override the "t" helper and add your escaping logic conditions + .html_safe