Form_for text_field

Rails
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I have a form

… html …

<% form_for @person do |f| %>

… html …

<%= f.text_field :last_name %>

… html …

<% end %>

When last_name field of @person doesn’t contains french special symbols
like ‘é’, all characters are displayed in the input control
(f.text_field :last_name ).

Else only symbols before french special symbol are displayed.

Why is it?

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On 2 Nov 2011, at 07:09, st 121212 [email protected] wrote:

… html …

<% end %>

When last_name field of @person doesn’t contains french special symbols
like ‘’, all characters are displayed in the input control
(f.text_field :last_name ).

Else only symbols before french special symbol are displayed.

I’d start by checking that you are using the same encoding throughout
the app (the encoding advertised to the browser, database connection
encoding, encoding of the table/columns etc) or funny things will
happen. For example if you try and insert invalid UTF8 content in a UTF8
column (eg because it’s actually Latin-1 text) MySQL will silently
truncate it.

Fred

3

Frederick C. wrote in post #1029736:

I’d start by checking that you are using the same encoding throughout
the app (the encoding advertised to the browser, database connection
encoding, encoding of the table/columns etc) or funny things will
happen. For example if you try and insert invalid UTF8 content in a UTF8
column (eg because it’s actually Latin-1 text) MySQL will silently
truncate it.

Fred

I understand this idea. But if, for example, I have last_name = “tést”
and execute:

<%= f.text_field :last_name %>

results: t

<%= f.object.last_name %>

results: tést

So, I am not sure, but I think that encoding of page and database is ok.
Or no?

What do you think about it?

Ivan

4

And also I had detected that if I change

  def escape_once(html)
    ActiveSupport::Multibyte.clean(html.to_s).gsub(/[\"><]|&(?!([a-zA-Z]+|(#\d+));)/)

{ |special| ERB::Util::HTML_ESCAPE[special] }
end

method in
c:\Ruby187\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\actionpack-2.3.5\lib\action_view\helpers\tag_helper.rb

to

def escape_once(html)
html
end

french symbols are displayed but also are displayed many wrong symbols
like new line…

maybe it will be correct if I will change
/["><]|&(?!([a-zA-Z]+|(#\d+));)/
to
/["><]|&(?!([a-zA-Z\u00C0-\u00FF]+|(#\d+));)/

add this french symbols \u00C0-\u00FF