Bummer, this didn't work for me. I think I'm having a similar problem. I was using mysql gem, database was utf8, but I was getting an occasional template encoding error. That prompted me to update my driver to mysql2 (which solved my template problem), but resulted in formerly "correct" characters getting botched.
Björn became Björn. Or maybe it always was that, but mysql driver was somehow presenting it as we want to see it. Regardless, going to mysql2 left me with a lot of screwed up names :( I also tried the column -> blob -> text trick, and sadly that didn't appear to change anything. Do you think there's some simple algorithm I can use to map screwy things to their correct versions? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/wZL0wKaUa6wJ. 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.
