Hello, I have run into a hitch where the XML returned by my actions contains mangled EOLs. I have a Project model that has a description attribute. In the browser this is edited with a text area. Let''s say the user types this (between the dashed lines): ---- This is line 1. This is line 2. This is line 4. ---- This is passed through to the MySQL database and stored in a field of datatype TEXT. When I view the project in a browser the description looks exactly as it was entered. When I look at the XML representation (by hitting the URL with curl), the XML looks fine in the terminal (Terminal.app). But when I view that XML in a text editor (vim) I see the EOLs are inconsistent with extraneous carriage returns: ---- This is line 1.^M This is line 2.^M ^M This is line 4. ---- I am using an rxml template to generate the XML. The relevant part of the template looks like this: xml.project do xml.description project.description end Is this a character encoding problem? If so, what''s the best way to track down the point where things go awry? The ugly workaround is to remove all the carriage returns in the generated XML like this: xml.description project.description.gsub(/\r/, '''') ...but that doesn''t solve the problem; it only addresses one manifestation of symptoms. I''d greatly appreciate any help solving this properly. Thanks in advance, Andy Stewart ------- http://airbladesoftware.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---