# Posted form fields becomes \[Binary Data\] insted of strings

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/posted-form-fields-becomes-binary-data-insted-of-strings/159640>\
**Category:** Rails I18n\
**Created:** [February 6, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/posted-form-fields-becomes-binary-data-insted-of-strings/159640 "2009-02-06T16:09:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![bikle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bikle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bikle)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/posted-form-fields-becomes-binary-data-insted-of-strings/159640/1 "2009-02-06T16:09:30Z")

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Hi every one,

I’m having problems with my Rails forms. When I submit a form that holds  
strings containing letters like å,ä or ö then the strings in the params  
variable are converted into [Binary Data]. Does anyone know why this  
happens?

Thanks  
-Dan

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**Author:** ![bikle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bikle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bikle)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/posted-form-fields-becomes-binary-data-insted-of-strings/159640/2 "2009-02-07T15:21:07Z")

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I figured out why my params are populated with [Binary Data]. Letters  
like å,ä, and ö are mutibyte charaters in the UTF8 format. In Rails  
2.2.2 UTF8 is a default setting and since I use Eclipse/Aptana Studio,  
my params (containing å,ä,ö) are displayed as [Binary Data] when I  
debug.