Henrik --- wrote: > I wouldn't use HTML entities in the database since you may display > them in other contexts than HTML/XML, and also get problems like this > one. So if possible, store the text in some unicode encoding in the > database, without entities. > > If you must use entities for some reason, I suppose you could just > decode them before passing to collection_select. I think > CGI.unescapeHTML is pretty limited, but there are libs: > http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+decode+html+entities
The problem no matter what I am using as encoding the form helper function form.collection_select changes the & to �. If I put the same code for the french accent on the page I get the correct output. Norvège => Norvège. I really just want to turn the html escaping off so that the characters are displayed properly. That would solve one of my problems. Why does rails make it so hard to do basic stuff with language? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rails-i18n" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-i18n?hl=en.
