Don Mapp wrote: > I have a website that is working fine, except I cannot get it to print > out characters other than plain text.
*Any* character is plain text. > Characters such as ', :, " and > others like degrees print with the dreaded black diamond with a ? > inside. Then your actual encoding is Latin-1 (8859-1), but the browser is trying to process it as if it were UTF-8. > Anyone has any idea as to how I might overcome this. > I want to have my website printing out the above special characters. The concept of "special character" is not really a useful one. They're just characters. > > I use MySql database to store text which is printed to the screen. > This is setup with coliation = Latin1_general_ci, but changing this > does not seem to mater. Collation may not matter, but encoding does. Make sure your DB encoding is set to something reasonable for your data (generally UTF-8 is a good choice). MySQL also has the option of setting column encodings; make sure those are correct. > > My Layout has the following:- > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> I recommend avoiding XHTML. Use HTML 4 or 5 instead. But that's a separate issue. > > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en"> > <head> > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> That looks good. > > I have changed UTF-8 without success > > The part doing the printing in View-Show is:- > > <p class="description"> > > <%= @picture.description %> > </p> > > class description => > > font-size:110%; > line-height:1.5em; > width:90%; > text-align:center; > margin:auto; The CSS is irrelevant here. What version of Ruby are you using? 1.8 and 1.9 deal with text encodings differently. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] Sent from my iPhone -- 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.
