Hi I''m working on a Rails app for quite some time now. I had some problems with umlauts; I found workarounds but don''t like them really. So I wanted to ask if I''m the only one with these problems. Basically, I''ve set up my app and my database to work with utf-8. This works fine for all data that is processed by ActionController / ActionView. I can enter data with umlauts and the data is rendered perfectly in a view. But: - ActionMailer cannot handle static text with umlauts in a template. I have to convert the static text to ISO-8859 ! Why is that ?? - I use rfpdf to generate pdf-docs. I have to convert data from my models to utf-8 to get the umlauts in the pdf. Why ist that ? My database is configured for utf-8 so I thougth my model objects are utf-8 already ?? - The Submit Tag Helper does not handle Umlauts. I have to convert the button text to utf-8 with IConv. Hmm ... My workaround is to use IConv to convert all those strings to utf-8 or - in the case of ActionMailer - to ISO-8859. It works but is really ugly. Any help to a "dryer" solution is very welcome ! Gernot -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.