UK Pound Signs being handled as \243?

Rails
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Hello,

It seems like something has recently caused £ symbols to be displayed as
\243
on our FreeBSD 6 server. We think this is causing our rails-based
payment
system to fail to process transactions which is obviously very bad for
us!

Why / How would this start happening? The server is configured to use UK
ISO
keyboard map and it was working fine until recently. I’m at a loss to
explain what
has changed.

Can I force this somehow?

Thanks,
Dominic

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Dominic M. wrote:

keyboard map and it was working fine until recently. I’m at a loss to
explain what
has changed.

Can I force this somehow?
Not sure if this applies to you: I often use latin2 characters in my
applications so to have Rails play nicely with encodings I put this at
the beginning of my envinronment.rb:

$KCODE=‘u’
require ‘jcode’

This basically activates some UTF-8 extensions in Ruby. Hope it helps.

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Istvan Hoka