Ruby on Rails - encoding issue

Question

I am running a RoR app that pulls data from some event tables which are using utf8_general_ci as collation.

The problem is that all my pages render stuff like this:

Atat�rk Stadi Nov 02 20:00

So far I have tried: - changing the encoding within application.rb

adding
```
<meta charset="utf-8" />
```
adding
```
content="text/html;charset=utf-8"
```
all combinations of above tags with all possible relevant encodings that may apply to our content.

Document type is

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

I have also tried HTML5 and other variations.

I have not yet tried the iconv solution, would prefer not having to go down that road.

Does anyone have any idea on how to resolve this?

Thank you! N.

I have two apps on the same DB, one is using 2.2.2 and one is using 3.2.1, both have the same problem. — Nick M
– Nick M, Commented Nov 2, 2012 at 12:12
ruby 1.8.7 (2012-02-08 MBARI 8/0x6770 on patchlevel 358) [x86_64-linux], MBARI 0x6770, Ruby Enterprise Edition 2012.02 — Nick M
– Nick M, Commented Nov 2, 2012 at 12:37
do you have a encoding: utf8 in your config/database.yml file? — simonmenke
– simonmenke, Commented Nov 2, 2012 at 13:03

simonmenke · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-02 14:08:10Z

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do you have a encoding: utf8 in your config/database.yml file?

answered Nov 2, 2012 at 14:08

simonmenke

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