Ruby gets the value of Encoding.default_external from the environment in which it runs. In your case, being Windows, I have no idea, and I doubt it will be a trivial exercise. Windows is somewhat UTF-8 hostile, from my limited experiences with it..
- Matt On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:26:17AM +0100, tynamite wrote: > When I type > ruby -e 'p Encoding.default_external > into the console it comes up with the encoding being CP850 instead of > UTF-8. How do I change it? > > On 13 August 2015 at 23:19, Matt Palmer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Some part of your system isn't configured for UTF-8, then. If it were, the > > bytes that represent the "pound currency" symbol would be a UTF-8 > > codepoint, > > instead of the ISO-8859-1 codepoint that it is putting in. > > > > - Matt > > > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 03:38:02PM +0100, tynamite wrote: > > > The string that is causing the problem is the Ł character. I am typing it > > > directly from my keyboard and am not copying it from anywhere else. > > > > > > I put Sequel::Model.plugin :force_encoding, 'UTF-8' in my model file and > > it > > > didn't fix the problem. > > > > > > On 13 August 2015 at 14:59, Jeremy Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 3:51:09 AM UTC-7, desbest wrote: > > > >> > > > >> I tried to insert this into my heroku postgres database. > > > >> > > > >> In Britain, if a child doesn't go to school for a day, the parent > > gets in > > > >> big trouble and depending on the school, the parent might might > > require a > > > >> written note **in advance**** or even be charged Ł60 a day for each > > > >> day's absence. If teachers are going to implement strict punishments > > when > > > >> school attendance isn't essential, why should teachers be allowed to > > strike? > > > >> > > > >> And got this error. > > > >> > > > >> Problem making a comment with ajax. PG::CharacterNotInRepertoire: > > ERROR: > > > >> invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xa3 > > > >> > > > >> Sequel::Model.plugin :force_encoding, 'UTF-8' > > > >> :encoding => 'utf8' > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >>> I've tried using a new blank database and it didn't help. > > > >> > > > >> > > > > It sounds like your database is already in UTF-8 encoding. However, > > you > > > > submitted a string that wasn't in UTF-8 encoding, which caused the > > database > > > > to return an error instead of accepting the query. The force_encoding > > > > plugin should make it so the models use UTF-8, but there are still > > cases > > > > where things will not work. For example, if the string you give it is > > > > marked as UTF-8 but contains non-UTF-8 data. 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