Rails - Nov 2006 - Accent stress - ASCII - How to get rid of strange characters

I just spent some hours to solve a problem that many people must have :
How to correctly show Latin accent characters in rails?
The problem is that usually, you get all ''?'' when sending to
the
browser things like ''ç'', ''ã'' etc.
I spent many hours dealing with this, but couldn''t find a good solution
from Mr. Google.
So, I wrote the following method :
def to_h(string)
saida=""
asci = Hash.new
  for i in 1..255
  asci[i.chr] = i
  end
  string.each_char do |charac|
  saida = saida+ "&#"+asci[charac].to_s
  end
  return saida
end
You should put it either in the application_helper.rb and at the
controllers application.rb, so that you can call it either from a view
and from a controller.
Basically, it encodes the string in ''&#'' codes that are
standard html
for the ''monkey'' browser.
Sweet !
Now :
<%=to_h("atenção") %>
outputs as :
atenção
and not as aten??o :-)
Sorry that it is not elegant enough, I had to make a ascii hash, since
I couldn''t find a standard Ruby function to do this.
If someone can help, please post.
Regards,

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OK.


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Hi, just knew that the [0] can return the ascii code :
e.g. : "A"[0]   >> 65
So, the method is :

def to_h(string)
saida=""
  string.each_char do |charac|
  saida = saida+ "&#"+charac[0].to_s
  end
  return saida
end


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