Encoding problems (i think utf-8 problems)

Rails
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i have problems with umlauts (���) sent from an observer to my
controller.
i dont exactely know what my controller receives. using rails 1.1.6 on
Win XP

the text field is observed with this Observer:

<%= observe_field ‘suche’, :frequency => 2,
:update => ‘angebote’,
:before => “Element.show(‘snake_spinner’)”,
:complete => “Element.hide(‘snake_spinner’)”,
:url => {:action => ‘suche_angebote’},
:with => " ‘query=’+ encodeURIComponent($(‘suche’).value)"
%>

everything works fine. but if i enter umlauts into my field ‘suche’, i
get strange values passed to my controller.
so, if i type in: � in my controller i’ll receive the following as
param: “query”=>“\303\266”

is this du the lack of utf-8 support in ruby/rails or what is
happening here? or a js problem?
saving and displaying umlauts in/from the database works without any
problems.

in application.rhtml:

headers from the observer POST:
Host localhost:3000
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.2)
Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Accept text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, /
Accept-Language de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive 300
Connection keep-alive
X-Requested-With XMLHttpRequest
X-Prototype-Version 1.5.0
Content-Type application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Referer http://localhost:3000/dokument/list
Content-Length 9
Cookie _session_id=14fde434003ce9fa32f57af64c8a6af2
Pragma no-cache
Cache-Control no-cache

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no one?

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On Mar 16, 6:50 am, “dweinand” [email protected] wrote:

so, if i type in: ? in my controller i’ll receive the following as
param: “query”=>“\303\266”

puts “\303\266”
ö

Looks right to me (assuming that the character you pasted in your post
(?) is the umlaut-o)… if you use String#inspect (which is likely
what Rails’ log output uses) on a string, non-ascii chars will be
shown as octal escapes. In this case, “\303\266” happens to be the
utf-8 representation of codepoint 0xf6, “LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH
DIAERESIS”.

saving and displaying umlauts in/from the database works without
any problems.

So where’s the issue?