# ASCII character in select box

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ascii-character-in-select-box/106829>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 14, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ascii-character-in-select-box/106829 "2007-06-14T13:35:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Cow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@Cow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Cow)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ascii-character-in-select-box/106829/1 "2007-06-14T13:35:15Z")

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Hi all,

I’ve been searching for hours trying to find a way to display the euro  
symbol using the select method. My code is as follows:

addresses = @cart.company.delivery\_addresses.map {|a| [a.description,  
a.id]}  
addresses \<\< [“Other address € 5,00”,0]  
select “delivery\_address”, “address\_id”, addresses

The problem is that rails makes the input html save, does anyone have  
an idea how to accomplice this?

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**Author:** ![Cow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@Cow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Cow)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ascii-character-in-select-box/106829/2 "2007-06-14T16:22:48Z")

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On 6/14/07, Cow [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> The problem is that rails makes the input html save, does anyone have  
> an idea how to accomplice this?

So you need to include the character directly. Assuming your output  
encoding is UTF-8 (default in latest Rails), you can do something  
like:

euro = [8364].pack(‘U’)  
addresses \<\< [“Other address #{euro} 5,00”,0]

I don’t know if Ruby accepts UTF-8 source code, but if it does, you  
could just insert the character directly (if your editor can do that).

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**Author:** ![Cow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@Cow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Cow)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ascii-character-in-select-box/106829/3 "2007-06-14T17:10:57Z")

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Cool, works great (both the direct and indirect method).

Thanks for the quick reply (and the answer).