Rails - Mar 2006 - British Pound character in error messages

some of my validation error messages contain a pound sign (the British 
currency, not #)
however, this get''s shown as a question mark in the view. i can get
round it
by using the html reference (£) instead of the literal character, but 
it seems a little counter-intuitive to handle this in the model...
isn''t it
view related?

any suggestions? I''m developing on webrick

You should set the character encoding in the page and response  
headers to, er, some charset that contains the pound sign (I always  
set them to utf8, which simplifies matters), so that the browser is  
sure to use the correct charset when decoding the page.  Note that  
your source files that contain non-ASCII characters need to be saved  
using the same charset.

Tim

On Mar 17, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Alan Bullock wrote:
> some of my validation error messages contain a pound sign (the British
> currency, not #)
> however, this get''s shown as a question mark in the view. i can
get
> round it
> by using the html reference (£) instead of the literal  
> character, but
> it seems a little counter-intuitive to handle this in the model...  
> isn''t it
> view related?

"Timothy Bennett" 
<timothy.s.bennett@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:706A49DB-D915-4A92-B69A-D417EB988A0E@gmail.com...
> You should set the character encoding in the page and response  headers 
> to, er, some charset that contains the pound sign
@response.headers[''Content-Type''] = ''text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1''

that did the trick. thank you.