On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 04:00:42PM -0400, Seth Thomas Rasmussen wrote: > My app crashes when trying to render this text with the latest Shoes > and OS X 10.4.11: > > "Rails Summit Latin America - Oct 15-16, 2008 - S\343o Paulo, Brasil - > http://tinyurl.com/3rcv62";
This is latin-1 encoding. Try the string: "Rails Summit Latin America - Oct 15-16, 2008 - S\xC3\xA3o Paulo, Brasil - http://tinyurl.com/3rcv62"; I will fix the crash to give an error when non-UTF8 is used. Thanks! _why
