Sven Koesling wrote: > Hello Tor, the enconding - hint works perfectly, thank You very much! > What leads me to the question why rails 1.9 interprets files as us-ascii > - is this a good idea?
If I understand correctly, this is more of a core Ruby 1.9 issue than a Rails issue. Ruby 1.9 changed its encoding handling significantly -- probably for the better, but it *is* more complex than 1.8, from what I understand. (Take this with a grain of salt. I haven't used 1.9 yet.) > > And hello Marnen, it was just an example, I came across when I tried to > find an error in my application. I was working on the controller and > just needed an array. But as I am a beginner I am absolutely sure I > would have left things like that in the controller instead of putting > them where they belong. So thank You very much too for reminding me. > > But no matter if I put my array in the controller or model I need the # > encoding: utf-8 line. Right. If it comes from the DB, you don't, at least not that way. In that case, you need to make sure your DB encoding is correct. > > Conclusion for all non-US-collegues: The encoding problem often happens, > when it comes to notices or error-messages I want to show to the user. > Even if I know that my application will be in german it's worth it to > leave those messages in english and use the localization-files (in my > case de.yml) for the text with special character encodings. That's true, but for reasons that have little to do with encoding, and more with application structure. (Of course, I believe that all text and source code files should be UTF-8 anyway.) > > Thanks again, lesson learned :-) > greetings > Sven Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
