On Sep 24, 9:21 am, john <j...-eRg+Z95SD7IQZ7m9OUuf1w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> I want ror to not use utf8. I have tried setting $KCODE to
''n''.
> Activercord still tries to convert my special characters to utf.
>
> The character ''ê'' comes as "\303\252''. I
want it to show the ê WITHOUT
> using utf8. I have NO reason to use utf8. I do not know if this is a
> rails or ruby issue. Can someone please help?
I''d strongly recommend you reconsider that position - you''ve
got to
use some encoding to encode your text, what encoding do you want to
use that is ''better'' than utf-8 ?
There are multiple pieces to the problem:
- response to the user''s browser need to state the correct character
set (ActionController::Base.default_charset controls the default
character set user)
- your database should be set to use correct collation etc (eg a utf8
string is not sorted in the same way as a latin1 string, some
sequences of bytes are not valid utf8 etc)
- your data needs to actually be in that encoding: if you have
existing content you will have to convert it all to this new encoding
(and depending on your content there might not be a single encoding
that covers all of them).
- browser shenanigans
To my knowledge, active record itself doesn''t do any conversion
(beyond in some cases telling the adapter library what character set
it expects) - you''re probably seeing the browser encode what you type
as utf-8
Fred
>
> Ruby: 1.8.7
> Rails: 2.3.8
> Database: Firebird 2.1.3
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