Umlauts problem

Rails
1 
Hi,

I have a MSSQL db server which I am accessing from RoR. But
the database has a table T with a field name ("Hölle") consisting
of umlauts :( how to access this field??

Thanks,
Ram
2

In your databases.yml you need

encoding: utf8
as one of the parameters (assuming that is actually the encoding that
your database are using.

There’s also ruby’s kcode global that you should set (eg $KCODE = ‘u’ in
you environment.rb).
You might also want to do a require ‘jcode’ this changes some of the
functions in String so that they work better for multibyte characters.

Fred

3

Actually I solved it using read_attribute… i.e.

def Hoelle
    read_attribute("Hölle")
end

Thx for your input…

Ram

In your databases.yml you need

encoding: utf8
as one of the parameters (assuming that is actually the encoding that
your database are using.

There’s also ruby’s kcode global that you should set (eg $KCODE = ‘u’ in
you environment.rb).
You might also want to do a require ‘jcode’ this changes some of the
functions in String so that they work better for multibyte characters.

Fred