Thank you Marnen for your reply I agree it doesn't make a lot of sense to me either. But then again neither do japanese characters nor Microsoft documents.
Yes the characters are displayed correct in the application. I am aware it should all just work fine without the Iconv workaround but it did the trick for the the turkish and the spanish characters. Anyway- thanks again! -- 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.

