# Encoding issue: is it Rails 2?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/encoding-issue-is-it-rails-2/125014>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 4, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/encoding-issue-is-it-rails-2/125014 "2008-01-04T16:24:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![gers32](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ed8c4c/32.png) [@gers32](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gers32)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/encoding-issue-is-it-rails-2/125014/1 "2008-01-04T16:24:37Z")

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Hi,

I recently upgraded from Rails 1.2.6 to Rails 2.0.2 and an application  
which used to correctly display European characters from an Oracle  
database (Win-1252) now screws them up.

I previously had to convert from Win-1252 to UTF-8 for generating ODT  
files (OpenOffice) via Documatic. But I never had to do any conversion  
just to display the content in my Flex front-end.

Has anything changed in Rails 2, which could have caused this problem?

Thanks,

Chris.

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**Author:** ![gers32](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ed8c4c/32.png) [@gers32](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gers32)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/encoding-issue-is-it-rails-2/125014/2 "2008-01-07T16:51:51Z")

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Here’s more info : it turns out the working version also runs with  
Rails 2.0.2… Here are the differences in the Gem environment (in  
parentheses the non-working version):

actionmailer-2.0.2  
actionpack-2.0.2  
activerecord-2.0.2  
activerecord-oracle-adapter-1.0.0  
activeresource-2.0.2  
activesupport-2.0.2  
archive-tar-minitar-0.5.1  
cgi\_multipart\_eof\_fix-2.5.0  
color-1.4.0  
documatic-0.1.0  
fastercsv-1.2.3  
fxri-0.3.6  
fxruby-1.6.12-mswin32  
gem\_plugin-0.2.3  
hoe-1.3.0 (hoe-1.4.0)  
hpricot-0.6-mswin32  
log4r-1.0.5  
mongrel-1.1.2-x86-mswin32 (mongrel-1.1.3-x86-mswin32)  
pdf-writer-1.1.7  
rails-2.0.2  
rake-0.7.3 (rake-0.8.1)  
rubyforge-0.4.4  
rubygems-update-1.0.0 (rubygems-update-1.0.1)  
rubyzip-0.9.1  
ruport-1.2.3 (ruport-1.4.0)  
sources-0.0.1  
transaction-simple-1.4.0  
win32-api-1.0.4-mswin32  
win32-api-1.0.5 (NOT PRESENT)  
win32-clipboard-0.4.3  
win32-dir-0.3.2  
win32-eventlog-0.4.6  
win32-file-0.5.4  
win32-file-stat-1.2.7  
win32-process-0.5.3  
win32-sapi-0.1.4  
win32-sound-0.4.1  
windows-api-0.2.0  
windows-pr-0.7.2

As you can see, the working version has slightly older gems, but I  
don’t dare update them, because this is my only working version…

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

Chris.

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**Author:** ![gers32](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ed8c4c/32.png) [@gers32](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gers32)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/encoding-issue-is-it-rails-2/125014/3 "2008-01-08T16:58:54Z")

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This time, I took the risk of upgrading all my Gems in the working  
environment, one by one. So I now have two identical environments  
(when it comes to Ruby, Rails, and Gems versions), but one has  
encoding problems.

Any hint to where my problem may reside would be a great help. Thanks,

Chris.