[Rails] Re: Character encoding problems.

2011-09-06 Thread Frederick Cheung
On Sep 6, 6:19 pm, Perry Smith wrote: > I've been fighting these problems since I moved to Ruby 1.9.  I am now > using Ruby 1.9.2 with Rails 2.3.11 and I am still having problems.  The > symptom is errors with this message: > > (incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1) > > I've ma

[Rails] Re: Character encoding problems.

2011-09-06 Thread 7stud --
Perry Smith wrote in post #1020442: > I've been fighting these problems since I moved to Ruby 1.9. I am now > using Ruby 1.9.2 with Rails 2.3.11 and I am still having problems. The > symptom is errors with this message: > > (incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1) > > I've marked

[Rails] Re: Character encoding problems.

2011-09-06 Thread Jeff Lewis
Hi Perry, I've run into such encoding issues under ruby 1.9.x and rails 3.x when dealing with unknown/untrusted/bad non-utf8 data params that need to be handled by the rails app as utf-8. The fix I found (that works for the needs of my apps) was by following a strategy outlined by Paul Battley (h

[Rails] Re: Character encoding problems.

2011-09-06 Thread Perry Smith
Yes, I understand Ruby's encodings. That isn't my question. My question is what is a good consistent way to deal with the in Rails given that the input may be any language, you do not have control over the various source files in the gems, etc. i.e. since the rails files do not have the UTF-8