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Hi, I''m a newcomer to Ruby and to Rails, and am having a problem with character encoding. Now, I know ruby doesn''t handle unicode...but, characters like ? (eacute) and ? (ccedil) are part of the iso-8859-1 charset, so it shouldn''t be a problem, right? But, for some reason, the string functions still seem to hang on those characters. As an example, in a brand new rails app, with a single model "Post" mapped to a database with id, title, and body, I gene...

I try to find an function to convert characters in html chars. "é" become "é" There is something in RoR 1.0 to do that ?

Hello, We initially save french characters using friendly html code, ie: Ç into our db. Problems started when user tried to save actual accented characters, ie:Ç, in the forms. The accented characters become garbled and unable to be render correctly to views. This only happens on lower case french characters. We tried collation but not sure if we are even using the right...