Hi Jim, Looks that you have encoding problems, check your current encoding puts Encoding.default_external
To solve your problem it should be UTF-8. Because according to the docs http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Encoding.html#method-c-default_external *"File <http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/File.html> data written to disk will be transcoded to the default external encoding when written."* * * Or you can use additional options :encoding in CSV.generate (http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.2/libdoc/csv/rdoc/CSV.html#method-c-generate) On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 9:24:01 AM UTC+2, jim wrote: > > Hi guys! > > I have a company model with a name attribute. Each company is association > a set of projects. I created a feature which allows users to > download a csv version of these projects. The download will give you a > zipped file of all projects grouped by company. So the zip file contains x > number of csv files where x is the number of companies. Everything is > working nice. > > But when a user created a company whose name contains greek > characters, I suddenly get issues with encoding. Here's a small part of > the code that creates the zip file (i'm using zipruby btw) > > Zip::Archive.open(file, Zip::CREATE) do |archive| > companies.each do |company| > data = CSV.generate(row_sep: "\r\n", quote_char: '"', force_quotes: > true) do |csv| > company.projects.each { |project| csv << project.name } > end > > archive.add_buffer "#{company.name}.csv", data > end > end > > so when company.name contains greek characters, i get a filename similar > to company??????.csv which cant be opened. I can't find a > way to set the encoding of the filename so I just gsubbed it and ignored > all non-ascii characters which is fine. But if one of the projects also > has a greek character, then the csv file will contain weird non-greek > characters. > > Any help or insight is appreciated. Thanks! > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > visit my blog at http://jimlabs.heroku.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/74A_AKUpG08J. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
