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I am switching to a composite primary key (string and user ID) from the Rails conventional auto-incrementing integer primary ID. The table is large (2.5 million records) and I''d rather not discard the contents. The composite_primary_key gem doesn''t appear to support altering the table with a migration to do its magic, only creating a table from scratch. So I dumped the table

Hi all, I am trying to configure utf8 in mysql under centos6 to display special characters, like accents. I use this mysql instance to store plain syslog logs. I have configured this under my.cnf: [mysqld] init_connect = 'SET collation_connection = utf8_general_ci' init_connect = 'SET NAMES utf8' character-set-server = utf8 collation-server = utf8_general_ci [client]

Hi, I was wondering if there''s an RSS reader plugin of some sort available that will basically get the RSS feeds for me and then allow my Rails application to take those feeds and present them on my website. Would anybody know how I could get this to work with a rails app? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello. I want to write my notes in Sweave in my own language (spanish). But my language has accents and when I run Sweave in R to translate my Snw file into the tex file the accents are translated into unrecognizable characters. For example, the word "cami?n" (truck) is translated into "cami??n" Somebody knows how can I do it? One solution I don't like is using a

Hi, I am using libxapian in a C++ project (hence I am using Xapian's C++ API) and some user has requested that search requests should ignore accents. E.g. when the user searches for "Herr Müller" he expects that "Herr Muller" is also a search hit. Is this possible in Xapian? Do you have any links to the documentation of that feature? Thanks for your help, Kim

Hi, How can I include accents and signs like '?' '?' in the plots generated by R? I try, but R automatically transforms the name ex: > countries <- c("M?xico", "Espa?a") > countries [1] "M\216?xico" "Espa\216?a" > I've seen in some Spanish texts about R how is it normal to include labels of the plots and other names with

Hi, I've a problem with the accents. How do I configure Xapian to ignore the accents in the search/indexes? Thanks, Nuno Mariz

Hello Could someone please direct me to the correct commands for adding accents (grave and aigu) to a letter in a plot title, label, or in added text? I'm sure there's a handy list somewhere, but I've failed in coming up with the correct search words to find it. Thank you muchly! Jen

Hi, I''m pretty sure to have seen a new method ''remove_accents'' in Rails 2.2 but I can''t find it again. Is it me or does this method exists for good ? Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk"

Hello, I have build a syntax to find out if a given substring is included in a larger string that works like this: d1$V1[regexpr("some text = 9",d1$V2)>0] <- 9 and this works all right till "some text" contains standard ASCII set. However, it does not work when accents are included as the following: d1$V1[regexpr("some t?xt = 9",d1$V2)>0] <- 9 I have

I have an openoffice spreadsheet with a column of character strings. Some of them contain accents. I want to read it in R so I have saved it as a csv file using Western Europe (ISO-8859-1) character set (the default, I've tried other sets but it doesn't help). R reads it fine with CharMatrix<-read.csv("test.csv",header=F,sep=",",as.is=TRUE); Say I wan't to

Hi, I was searching archives, manuals and web to solve usage of fonts with accents in R, but I was not succesfull. Had anybody solve problem with usage of fonts with accents (czech)? Thanks for advice, Jakub Zlamal -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send

Hello, I have a problem with special characters such as "?" or "?" when using hwriter. This only happens when I use windows, it works fine on mac. If I do: print(datosdv) "Ciencias Sociales y Jur?dicas n:74 | 33.94%" but: hwrite(datosdv, p, br=TRUE) "Ciencias Sociales y Jur?dicas n:74 | 33.94%" The bad sign is in the code, is not a problem of the

Hi, I''m working on a french website and I use the Form.serialize method to send the info through AJAX. The thing is that the accentuated letters (é,ê,à, etc.) don''t get replaced by their HTML entities and they get corrupted when retrieving the data. How could I fix that? thanks a lot, Blaise Bernie

Dear all, there is a R function to remove all accents in strings? best regards. JL [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello, my application controller defines before_filter :set_charset def set_charset @headers["Content-Type"] = "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" end Everything is fine and accents are rendered correctly in the browser. However, when I call a controller/action from Ajax (Prototype), the charset is not taken in account and accents are garbage displayed (''?''

Anyone know, under Linux, how to get accents (hoping for u with an umlaut, for example) into a comment field? They're happily in the comment file I'm using as a source (or on the command line), but they get translated into # either when I do vorbiscomment -a or vorbiscomment -l (not sure which, but XMMS also sees # instead of the right char, which implies the first). title=Die Sch#ne

Hi all, I have a samba install that is coring dump every time a file with accents on the file name is accessed. Do any one knows how to work around this? I'm using samba version 4. Please let me know if you guys need any more info regarding my install. Thanks in advance. Leon

Hello, I''m having troubles with accents in words I retrieve from database. What I expect is ''Retención'' but what I get is ''Retenci?n''. When I retrieve that info with a Java app it works fine. Is there any solution? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Hello, I wrote a RoR app on OSX and SQL Server. The DB uses SQL_Latin1, so I use Iconv to convert to UNICODE every dynamic text I show on the pages (Iconv.conv(''utf-8'', ''iso-8859-1'', string)). That''s been working fine until I deployed the app on a debian box. Since then, the accents are shown as question marks, and I don''t know why. The