Encoding Issues Seeds.rb

Rails
1

Hi People,

Im running the seed.rd for the countries from here:
https://github.com/wdblair/Rails-Seed-All-Countries-and-All-States/downloads
the
author states that the file is UTF.

When I execute the import I recieve the error: invalid multibyte char
(UTF-8)’ (from instructions here:

)

I tried adding this to the top of the file: # encoding: utf-8 but still
no
luck.

I tried the instructions here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/invalid$20multibyte$20char/rubyonrails-talk/KKXeimNmjV4/B5qfG9trqW8J

Still the same error occours.

Im using ruby: 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09) [i386-mingw32] and rails:
3.1.3 running on windows.

Any ideas what I have wrong?
Thanks,
Maxus

2

Hi All,

I rebuilt my enviroment on linux, still the same issue occours. Any one
have any idea whats going on?

Thanks!
Maxus

3

El lunes 12 de marzo de 2012 11:38:24 UTC+1, Maxus escribi:

When I execute the import I recieve the error: invalid multibyte char
Still the same error occours.

Im using ruby: 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09) [i386-mingw32] and rails:
3.1.3 running on windows.

Any ideas what I have wrong?
Thanks,
Maxus

Your problem will probably go away if you write the following comment at
the top of the .rb file:

encoding: utf-8

Regards.

4

Hi Juan,

I have tried that, still recieve the same error. Also noticed running
the
seed on heroku also throws the same error.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!
Maxus

5
Hi,

    Try to reconvert the file with "iconv -f UTF-8" and add "# encoding: utf-8" to the first line....

    In case isn't working I will suggest to review the encoding of the database and maybe to force it with "encoding: UTF8"

    Regards,   

El 12/03/2012 12:25, Maxus escribió:
 
Hi Juan,
 
I have tried that, still recieve the same error. Also noticed running the seed on heroku also throws the same error.
 
Any other suggestions?
 
Thanks!
Maxus
 

On Monday, March 12, 2012 6:55:32 PM UTC+8, Juan P. Avello wrote:


El lunes 12 de marzo de 2012 11:38:24 UTC+1, Maxus escribió:
Hi All,
 
I rebuilt my enviroment on linux, still the same issue occours. Any one have any idea whats going on?
 
Thanks!
Maxus
 
 

On Monday, March 5, 2012 4:21:44 PM UTC+8, Maxus wrote:
Hi People,
 
 
When I execute the import I recieve the error: invalid multibyte char (UTF-8)' (from instructions here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1739836/invalid-multibyte-char-us-ascii-with-rails-and-ruby-1-9)
 
I tried adding this to the top of the file: # encoding: utf-8 but still no luck.
 
 
Still the same error occours.
 
Im using ruby: 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09) [i386-mingw32] and rails: 3.1.3 running on windows.
 
Any ideas what I have wrong?
Thanks,
Maxus
 

Your problem will probably go away if you write the following comment at the top of the .rb file:

# encoding: utf-8

Regards.
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Hi All,
I tried everything and was going mad. I discovered redownloading the
file
and replacing my existing one fixed it after putting the utf header in.
My
guess is editing the file on windows somehow stuffed up the encoding
(surprise surprise!).
Thank you everyone for their help!
-M

On Monday, March 5, 2012 4:21:44 PM UTC+8, Maxus wrote:

Any ideas what I have wrong?
Thanks,
Maxus