I''m using FasterCSV to upload some csv files and create some records based off the data in the CSV files. I''m pretty sure the problem is a character encoding issue because the CSV is full of French and German words. If I remove all the accents off the letters, then it uploads fine, otherwise it just throws a FasterCSV::MalformedCSVError. jeremy-woertinks-imac:winovations jeremywoertink$ file -I ~/Downloads/example.csv /Users/jeremywoertink/Downloads/example.csv: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I''m using jeremy-woertinks-imac:winovations jeremywoertink$ ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i686-darwin9.8.0] gem ''rails'', ''3.0.1'' gem ''fastercsv'', ''1.5.3'' Is there a way to set the default encoding for FasterCSV? I looked through the docs and didn''t see it, and most my google searches turned up people wanting the encoding to be UTF-8, but I don''t think that''s what I should be using. Any ideas? Thanks, ~Jeremy -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.