# Slovene characters in Views and in MySQL

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slovene-characters-in-views-and-in-mysql/111945>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 13, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slovene-characters-in-views-and-in-mysql/111945 "2007-08-13T19:36:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![klemenv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@klemenv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/klemenv)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slovene-characters-in-views-and-in-mysql/111945/1 "2007-08-13T19:36:05Z")

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Hi,

am having troubles with Slovene characters in rails.

If I set

I am not getting Slovene characters in Views (I mean RHTML). However  
everithyng is fine with data that comes from data base.

if I set :

everything works (in RHTM and from database).

However, in MySQL string fields are working, while text field is not  
working. I am getting exceptions, if I am trying to save Slovene text to  
text field.

How to set Slovene, (Czech, Slovak, Croat etc.) characters under Rails,  
MySql and UTF-8?

Regards,

Klemen

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**Author:** ![klemenv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@klemenv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/klemenv)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slovene-characters-in-views-and-in-mysql/111945/2 "2007-08-13T20:13:04Z")

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looks like issue was, that Aptana by default has encoding set to CP1252

so … windows … preferences filter encoding and setting to utf’8 does  
the trick

> Regards,
> 
> Klemen