I extracted metadata from my image files and stored them in a mysql table using the default .yml configuration. The meta data includes a lot of "Copyright (c) Kip 2007 blah blah blah" (only with the real symbol \251). When I display the information from my app in a browser I got the "square" replacing the symbol. SInce the headers all looked fine if figured it was the database connection. So I changed the connection to "encoding: utf8" and voila, the symbol appears correctly. However, now when I reload the metadata the information is truncated at the symbol (ie. on the ''Copyright '' makes it to the database. Summary: "encoding default" i can store the right data, but not display it "encoding: utf8" I can display the right data, but not store it. The database is utf8, the collation is utf8-general. Any suggestions or pointers would be much appreciated! Cheers, --Kip --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---