Hi, do you test case that I can run locally because I have done a lot of
work
in this regard?
-Conrad
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:09 PM, cult hero <binarypala...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have kind of an interesting problem.
>
> I have a form wherein people enter information. Big surprise. If they
> enter any "weird" characters like ø or é or whatever, the form will
> submit and all is well. However, I have a select box for the state
> which, if you're looking at Spain, has states like A Coruña, Cádiz and
> País Vasco. These are pulled from the database which is set to have
> everything encoded in UTF-8. Everything we're doing is in UTF-8.
>
> However... when it renders the template IF someone used a non-ASCII
> character in a field that appears BEFORE the select I get this error:
>
> incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8 (on the same
> line as f.select :state)
>
> If one of the fields AFTER the state field (like the postal code)
> contains a non-ASCII character the error is reversed:
>
> incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT (on the same
> line as f.select :postal_code)
>
> The more I work with encodings in Rails and Ruby in general, the more
> I find myself confused and frustrated. I added config.encoding =
> Encoding::UTF_8 to my application.rb, but that doesn't appear to
> affect templates at all. The problem, so far as I can see, is in one
> of two places:
>
> I either need to tell Rack to make all my string parameters encoded in
> UTF-8 or I need to set my template default encoding to UTF-8. A quick
> fix is:
>
> params[:form].each { |k, v| v.force_encoding 'UTF-8' if v.is_a?
> String }
>
> I know this is not ideal, but I don't understand how the view works
> well enough to do this better.
>
> What should I do to fix this problem? (Oh, and I'm using ERB, as an
> FYI.)
>
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