Rails and html - encoding error

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in my template (index.html.erb) is no line for any code like utf-8 or anything. so rails of course has a problem with that.

    Your template was not saved as valid UTF-8. Please either specify UTF-8 as the encoding for your template in your text editor, or mark the template with its encoding by inserting the following as the first line of the template:

# encoding: <name of correct encoding>.

so i tried to paste this into my html: # encoding: < meta charset=utf-8 />.

did i write something wrong? or can i take any other code?

The answer from rails is: unknown encoding name - <

thanks for answering

Christoph · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-09 13:14:13Z

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check if the file itself is saved as UTF-8.

This was my problem.

Using "e" as a texteditor or Notepad++ (or any other (windows) tool ) with wrong configuration may be the problem.

e (and i think Notepad++) was configured to save the files as "Windows DOS OEM (EP 437)".

I've changed this in the settings to UTF-8, saved alle files (withoth changes) and it works.

answered Aug 9, 2011 at 13:14

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Vince Over a year ago

This was the problem for me, too. I'm using Eclipse, which I just discovered to Cp1252. I changed it to UTF-8 and saved the file again and the problem disappeared.

Aditya Kapoor · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-06 07:49:37Z

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in your application.rb file paste this line

config.encoding = "utf-8"

or in your application.html.erb file paste the following line

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

answered Dec 6, 2012 at 7:49

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ckruse · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-18 09:47:03Z

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The meta charset is for HTML. You need to specify the charset for ruby, you can do it by using a comment like this:

# encoding: utf-8

answered Jul 18, 2011 at 9:47

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Anna Over a year ago

yeah, sounds logical, thanks. But I can put the comment wherever I want (at the the top of the document like it's written or in the head), it still gives me the same error. Can't explain why...

ckruse Over a year ago

Are you sure that you saved the template file in UTF8 encoding? What exactly did you write in the template file?

Zarne Dravitzki · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-12 01:12:18Z

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Using Rubymine4, accidentally right clicked and didn't see what I had pressed... BANG! code = gone! Plus 1 error! I had reencoded the page to some crazy encoding. Just right click in page and -> save '[Your crazy Encoding here]' file in another encoding.

Rubymine, too easy! ;)

answered Jul 12, 2012 at 1:12

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-20 10:18:23Z

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That solved for me. It was my file that was not being saved as utf-8 after all.

https://superuser.com/questions/581553/sublime-text-2-encoding-utf-8

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