# "incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8" **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 9, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/incompatible-character-encodings-ascii-8bit-and-utf-8/191321 "2010-07-09T15:58:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/cc9497/32.png) [@unit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unit)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/incompatible-character-encodings-ascii-8bit-and-utf-8/191321/1 "2010-07-09T15:58:57Z")
Hi! Just started to learn Rails, and I get this error when i’m trying to make a simple forum-app (much like the screencast about making a blog in 15min at [rubyonrails.org](http://rubyonrails.org)). This appears when I try to render a partial - that is posting a comment containing swedish letters Ã¥ (å), ä (ä) and ö (ö). I can view those posts by going to localhost:3000/posts/ using the scaffold generated new, edit and show. This error only appears when rendering a partial. I’ve tried to change encoding to UTF-8 everywhere I could find, tried with latin1 aswell. Can’t figure out what’s wrong. I’ve googled, searched a number of forums… Thankful for any help! Regards /Björn