On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:14 AM, _why <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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";
Aha. I am clearly no master of encodings. Twitter API gives one HTML entities for these special characters for some reason, so I was just doing ye old CGI.unescapeHTML() and hoping for the best. Your string seems to work fine. Thanks for the heads up! -- Seth Thomas Rasmussen http://greatseth.com
