<a href="https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/2188-i18n-fails-with-multibyte-strings-in-ruby-19-similar-to-2038" rel="nofollow">https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/2188-i...</a><p>Still broken, I guess? This is a show-stopper for ruby-1.9 &#38; rails-2 deployments.