[Rails] Re: Validating Umlauts

Adam Groves
Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:39:40 -0000

Adam Groves wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I''m building a rails application for German and English speakers.
> However, I''m having some problems validating German-specific
characters
> (????). I have a tag-model which validates format of :name, :with =>
> /^\w+$/. This throws an exception if german characters are used. My
> tables are all utf-8 and my environment.rb has the lines
>
> $KCODE = ''u''
> require ''jcode''
>
> to set the character set to utf-8. Funnily enough, if I comment out the
> tag validation and add a new tag, an new row is created but the field
> tags.name is blank if the name includes ? ? ? or ?.
>
> I''d be grateful if anyone could offer me some advice.

Just found the solution:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToUseUnicodeStrings


--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.