Rails cant display £

Rails
1

Hi, under webrick the character, £, displays fine. Under apache it has
some problems.

The £ displays fine on my administrator page, using the default
generated code:

<% for column in Product.content_columns %>

<%= column.human_name %>: <%=h @product.send(column.name) %>

<% end %>

but when i construct my own view, and use:

<%= @product.price_prefix %><%= sprintf("%0.2f",@product.price) %>

the £ displays as ablack diamond and white question mark.

Whats that all about?

2

the £ displays as ablack diamond and white question mark.

Whats that all about?

The pound sign should be the character entity: £

Various page encodings will probably mess with it in different ways
otherwise.

Regards,
Andrew

3

Thanks andrew, unfortunatly this is user entered content, i feel its not
reasonable to ask them to enter &pound.

But i dont understand how it can be displayed correctly, and incorrectly
on the same site, rails is doing something different when it renders
these views.

4

Thanks Jorge, unfortunately it had no effect.

5

Try put an ‘H’ when you output ruby code, eg:

<%=h @product.price_prefix %> <%=h sprintf("%0.2f",@product.price)%>

<%=h CONTENT %>

will escape things for you.

Jorge

On 3/1/07, Jon [email protected] wrote:

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Jorge S.