I got it working. The BOM did it. Just in case you're curious, this is
what I used:
send_data "\xEF\xBB\xBF" + @page.body, :type => 'text/
plain', :filename => @page.permalink_segments.join('_') + '.txt'
On Nov 6, 4:04 pm, Stephen Waits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Abad wrote:
> > Great suggestion, that may be our problem. Some text editors just
> > aren't picking up the UTF-8 text files, and including a BOM may help
> > in those situations... right now we're just using this:
>
> > send_data @page.body, :type => 'text/plain', :filename =>
> > @page.permalink_segments.join('_') + '.txt'
>
> > Anyone happen to know how to add a BOM to the beginning of my file?
>
> First get the BOM into a string.. does this work?
>
> utf8bom = [0xef,0xbb, 0xbf].pack('c*')
>
> Then you have to prepend it onto your output stream. How about this?
>
> send_data (utf8bom + @page.body), :type => 'text/plain', ...
>
> All of this is completely untested.. :)
>
> --Steve
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