I could help with this. I've already patched my instalation to support Russian via utf-8. This works in Mysql , not sure about sqlite. I've also managed to get everything work in Safari. (Firefox woked fine from the start)

So. You need to

1. Add encoding: UTF8 after each of configurations (or just in the production ) in your database.yml
2. Add

$KCODE = 'u'
require 'jcode'
}}}    in the begining of enivonment.rb


3. And the last thing - add the following piece of code in the application_controller.rb

{{{
  after_filter :fix_unicode_for_safari

  # automatically and transparently fixes utf-8 bug 
  # with Safari when using xmlhttp
    def fix_unicode_for_safari 
      if @headers["Content-Type"] == "text/javascript" and
      @request.env['HTTP_USER_AGENT'].to_s.include? 'AppleWebKit' and request.xhr?
      @response.body = @response.body.gsub(/([^\x00-\xa0])/u) { |s| "&#x%x;" % $1.unpack('U')[0] }
      end
    end
    
    after_filter :set_charset

    def set_charset
      content_type = @headers["Content-Type"] || 'text/html'
      if /^text\//.match(content_type)
        @headers["Content-Type"] = "#{content_type}; charset=utf-8" 
      end
    end

I'm not pretty sure that the both filters a absolute requirenment - but they work for me )

P.S. I could implement the full multi-lang support -I just need to know what is expected besides the interface translations.

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I could help with this. I've already patched my instalation to support Russian via utf-8. This works in Mysql , not sure about sqlite. I've also managed to get everything work in Safari. (Firefox woked fine from the start)

So. You need to

1. Add encoding: UTF8 after each of configurations (or just in the production ) in your database.yml

2. Add
-----
$KCODE = 'u'
require 'jcode'
-----
in the begining of enivonment.rb


3. And the last thing - add the following piece of code in the application_controller.rb

  after_filter :fix_unicode_for_safari

  # automatically and transparently fixes utf-8 bug 
  # with Safari when using xmlhttp
 def fix_unicode_for_safari 
    if @headers["Content-Type"] == "text/javascript" and
    @request.env['HTTP_USER_AGENT'].to_s.include? 'AppleWebKit' and request.xhr?
    @response.body = @response.body.gsub(/([^\x00-\xa0])/u) { |s| "&#x%x;" % $1.unpack('U')[0] }
    end
 end
    
 after_filter :set_charset

 def set_charset
    content_type = @headers["Content-Type"] || 'text/html'
    if /^text\//.match(content_type)
      @headers["Content-Type"] = "#{content_type}; charset=utf-8" 
   end
end

I'm not pretty sure that the both filters a absolute requirenment - but they work for me )

P.S. I could implement the full multi-lang support -I just need to know what is expected besides the interface translations.

Updating tickets (#373, #105, #107, #117, #125, #126, #147, #177, #182, #183, #185, #197, #202, #206, #220, #236, #240, #276, #283, #294, #300, #305, #309, #312, #317, #324, #337, #357, #358, #360, #433, #452, #462, #17, #74, #82, #92, #123, #265, #431, #440, #475, #94, #256, #258, #464)

i18n is in current git. this is a dup of #104