# Iso-8859-1 no effect in browser **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 26, 2009, 6:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iso-8859-1-no-effect-in-browser/168798 "2009-05-26T06:40:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tivrfoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tivrfoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tivrfoa)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 6:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iso-8859-1-no-effect-in-browser/168798/1 "2009-05-26T06:40:24Z")
hi folks! I want to use characters with accent, like: é, ç, ã, ô. Then I changed from UTF-8 to iso-8859-1, so I can use é direct, instead of é The strange is that when I go in View -\> Codification, it is marked Unicode (UTF-8). ☹ But this is not the worst. The browser doesn’t change from special chars to its meaning. validates\_format\_of :email, :with =\> %r{[\_a-z0-9-][\_a-z0-9-]_@[\_a-z0-9-][\_a-z0-9-]_.[\_a-z0-9-] [\_a-z0-9-]\*}i, :message =\> ‘está incorreto’ It display Email está incorreto. I want Email está incorreto. Help meee! =D ---
**Author:** ![tivrfoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tivrfoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tivrfoa)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 8:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iso-8859-1-no-effect-in-browser/168798/2 "2009-05-26T08:02:52Z")
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:39 AM, tivrfoa [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > It display Email está incorreto. > I want Email está incorreto. > > Help meee! =D Have you tested with utf-8? That should have worked. Fidel. ---
**Author:** ![tivrfoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tivrfoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tivrfoa)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iso-8859-1-no-effect-in-browser/168798/3 "2009-05-26T15:26:14Z")
tivrfoa wrote: > I want to use characters with accent, like: é, ç, ã, ô. Then I changed > from UTF-8 to iso-8859-1, so I can use é direct, instead of é That’s not what the charset= is for. You should use the correct entities if at all possible, and neither your editor… > The strange is that when I go in View → Codification, it is marked > Unicode (UTF-8). ☹ …nor Ruby… > validates\_format\_of :email, > :with =\> %r{[\_a-z0-9-][\_a-z0-9-]_@[\_a-z0-9-][\_a-z0-9-]_.[\_a-z0-9-] > [\_a-z0-9-]\*}i, > :message =\> ‘está incorreto’ …are bothering to read that directive. They are still defaulting to utf-8, which is good enough for 99.999% of all programming. Further, both utf-8 and iso-8859-1 share many of the same Latin-1 code points, including é. Utf-8 merely gives the additional abilities to build the é out of an e and a modifying accent character, and the ability to read and write every other glyph in the world. You would only use iso-8859-1 if you had a database with known iso-8859-1 strings, AND if you did not want to simply Iconv them to UTF-8 before pushing them into your HTML. – Phlip [http://twitter.com/Pen\_Bird](http://twitter.com/Pen_Bird) ---
**Author:** ![tivrfoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tivrfoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tivrfoa)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iso-8859-1-no-effect-in-browser/168798/4 "2009-05-26T17:20:18Z")
tks! it didn’t work in utf-8. if I use está (without the special character), it display an interrogation symbol (?) Could someone try to use this =\> :message =\> ‘está incorreto’ in some validation to see if it works? How can I display “está”? tks ---
**Author:** ![tivrfoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tivrfoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tivrfoa)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iso-8859-1-no-effect-in-browser/168798/5 "2009-05-26T19:44:40Z")
I create almost only spanish applications, all with Ñ ñ, á é and so on, and use ONLY UTF-8. The meta directive between the head tags does all the magic. Regards. Franco C… ---
**Author:** ![tivrfoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tivrfoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tivrfoa)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 10:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iso-8859-1-no-effect-in-browser/168798/6 "2009-05-26T22:00:55Z")
thansk Franco. it works on the view, but not work in the model (at least here) did you try to add a message in some model with accent? ---
**Author:** ![tivrfoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tivrfoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tivrfoa)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iso-8859-1-no-effect-in-browser/168798/7 "2009-05-27T00:30:26Z")
Yes, i use it a lot, but in this form: record.errors.add attr, :invalid # or any other And then in the config/locales/es.yml es: activerecord: errors: messages: invalid: “no es válido” ``` # Custom for one model models: somemoder: attributes: someattribute: invalid: "es inválido" ``` I never use it in the direct form, always with the I18n package. If you want a complete example see [rails-i18n/rails/locale at master · svenfuchs/rails-i18n · GitHub](http://github.com/svenfuchs/rails-i18n/tree/master/rails/locale). Regards. Franco C… ---
**Author:** ![tivrfoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tivrfoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tivrfoa)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iso-8859-1-no-effect-in-browser/168798/8 "2009-05-28T17:10:24Z")
thanks folks. I solved the problem using a different text editor. Now I’m using RoRED. It’s an amazing editor, but only available for Windows. The problem was the encode of the files.