Newbe Question: Character Encoding

Rails
1

I have to present german umlaute as “ä” on my webpage. When writing the
text within the view, everything is fine - the characters are presented
correctly. When I declare variable within the controller (e.g. via flash
or as a list of values for a listbox) the text is displayed with the
umlaute replaced by strange characters.

I assume I have to adjust the character encoding somewhere.

I am runnin Rails in the standard configuration.

On which places can this be done in Rails ?

Thanks a lot in advance
Christian

2

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
before_filter :set_charset

def set_charset
@headers[“Content-Type”] = “text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2”
end
}

this works for me for iso-8859-2 character set.

best,
Bojan

Christian Neuhaus wrote:

On which places can this be done in Rails ?

Thanks a lot in advance
Christian

–
Bojan M.
Informatika Mihelac, Bojan M. s.p. | www.informatikamihelac.com
→ tools, scripts, tricks from our code lab: http://source.mihelac.org

3

Thanks, this worked.

Another trick is, that in SUSE default character encoding is set to
UTF-8. When entering strings with Eclipse editor, strings assigned in
the controller that are later directly displayed in the view, e.g. via
flash will not be displayed correctly as the font is set to ISO-8859 in
the browser.
So, solution was in addition to change default font in the editor :slight_smile:

Bojan M. wrote:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
before_filter :set_charset

def set_charset
@headers[“Content-Type”] = “text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2”
end
}

this works for me for iso-8859-2 character set.

best,
Bojan

Christian Neuhaus wrote:

On which places can this be done in Rails ?

Thanks a lot in advance
Christian

–
Bojan M.
Informatika Mihelac, Bojan M. s.p. | www.informatikamihelac.com
→ tools, scripts, tricks from our code lab: http://source.mihelac.org