Hi Fred & Bryan, Thank you so very much for looking into my query and helping me resolve it.
Your hint did the trick. The input file had an ANSI encoding instead of UTF-8. I just changed it and it worked. God bless you both :-) Thanks, Zahid Bryan Crossland wrote in post #983175: > Hi Zahid, > > Make sure your database.yml file knows to talk to the database in > UTF-8. Add the following to you database defined in there: > > encoding: utf8 > > That will ensure that the communication is in UTF-8. Now, Fredrick > makes a good point. The input file you are reading from should also be > in UTF-8 format and be displaying the characters properly. Double > check that as well. > > Thanks, > B. > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Frederick Cheung -- 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.

