I know this is the most common problem in the history of programming but I reallu believe I have tried it all now but I still get: incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT in my pages#index.html file.
I am running Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.1.1.
This is what I have verified / tested / set:
In database.yml, set encoding: utf8
development:
adapter: mysql
encoding: utf8
reconnect: false
database: kopa_development
pool: 5
username: root
password:
host: localhost
Checked with Notepad++ that the textfile(s) in term is encoded to utf-8
Checked with mysql query browser that the database is set to utf-8, so are the columns
I have tried with # coding: utf-8 in the controller related to the view I am trying to look at.
I have put SET NAMES utf8 in mysql
I have tried Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8 in environment.rb as well as Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8
I have config.encoding = "utf-8" in application.rb
I have Googled
I have read http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
I have tried both Notepad++ and RubyMine
Adding .force_encoding works but is very inconvenient to do
A funny thing is that if I set the index.html.erb to ANSI it will complain that application.html.erb does not have the correct encoding (rather than index.html.erb). I don't know what this means but it makes me think that there is something fishy with the editor.
I remember when using e text editor that there were two things I could set (with reference to encoding) the encoding and something else. That "else" I don't remember what it was though and I don't have e anymore.
Regarding the error-message, do I understand it correctly that the first mentioned means the database encoding and the second the Rails(?) encoding? I have seen the opposite error message as well (ASCII first and UTF-8 after).
Edit: I Googled some more this morning and found there is something wrong with the mysql-gem. The articles were a bit old and I tried the solutions there (such as trying mysql2 & ruby-mysql) with no better luck.
I am all out of ideas. How about you?
I couldn't fix this problem. I "solved" it by purchasing a Mac and continue to develop my Rails apps on it instead...
Encoding - me: 1-0
I was able to overcome that error but unfortunately I got the same error in yield statement (application.html.erb). After an half hour I gave up.
I saved some erb files from utf-8 with BOM to utf-8 without BOM. Mixing encoding is not good and I think it's the reason for your errors.
I also found files with different line ending: lf or crlf.
If you are developing in Windows, I recommend you the installation of virtual box to setup a linux virtual machine. You can access file system through samba, it works pretty good for me.
Also, configure your text editor for using utf-8 without BOM and lf end of line.
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I allready have problems with utf-8 encoding in my ror app ...
some are fixed now. But some are still left.
I have now an utf-8 force in my layout
But still have problems with German special chars (ä, ö, ü). In my /config/locales/de.yml I have lots of them. In the File they look nice :) tested with rubymine and nano.
But when I start the app it crashes. The yml is encoded in utf-8 ..
I've also tried this:
f\xC3\xBCr --> should be für
always got this:
incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT
Does anyone have some hints for me?
It seems to me that the encoding of the app is set to UTF-8.
Are you sure that RubyMine saves your file with UTF-8?
You can add
# encoding: UTF-8 to the top of your files to assure it is set. (Not sure if this works in .yml)
Edit:
If you have pasted any text into the file it may still contain wrong encoding.
Move the de.yml out of the project.
Create a new file de.yml
de:
first_translation: Ich möchten ein bisschen Müsli
If this works, then you need to rewrite everything from the old file, no copying!
I have a Rails application where I use regex-based rules to categorize transactions. In my seeds.rb, I create some categories and rules, then import transactions from a CSV file (also utf8-encoded) and allow them to be categorized. This process works fine on my development machine, but when I run it on Heroku, I get:
incompatible encoding regexp match (ASCII-8BIT regexp with UTF-8 string)
I am running the Cedar Stack, Rails 2.3.15. I have put
# encoding: utf-8
at the top of all my source files and I've set the encoding to utf-8 in my app config, so I'm not sure what else could be causing this problem. I'm wondering if has something to do with the Heroku configuration.
The issue could be caused by invisible characters that are ignored by your local operating system, ensuring proper encoding takes place whereas on Heroku, the characters mess up the magic number declaration at the top of the file and you end up with both ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8.
Since the file that is having issues contains the regex, it's probably your model class instead of seeds.rb.
There are many ways to view invisible characters in your file. In vi, just set the option :set list
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I get an error regarding the use of ×.
It's used in error messages on twitter's bootstrap framework, I get an invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 error when I try to use it. Is there any work-around? Apart from using a normal x or X.
I have:
# Configure the default encoding used in templates for Ruby 1.9.
config.encoding = "utf-8"
In my application.rb
This seems almost too simple, but why aren't you using ×?
You need to set the encoding at the top of the file where that character is used. You can do this with:
# coding: utf-8
class MyClass
end
I haven't tried it in an erb file, but I don't see why that would be any different. I think you can use the word "encoding" too instead of just "coding" if that feels better. All that is required is at minimum "coding".
What editor are you using?
I suspect that you are saving the source file using an encoding other than UTF-8 (such as Latin-1 or ANSI on Windows), which is then causing ruby to fail to interpret the file correctly.
I've tried adding the times symbol to one of my views (using HAML) and it worked correctly. I'm using VIM as my editor and saving in UTF-8 without any BOM.
#encoding: utf-8
class ClassiClass
end
everything works fine!
I'm getting the following error with my Ruby 1.9 & Rails 2.3.4. This happens when user submits a non-ASCII standard character.
I read a lot of online resources but none seems to have a solution that worked.
I tried using (as some resources suggested)
string.force_encoding('utf-8')
but it didn't help.
Any ideas how to resolve this? Is there a way to eliminate such characters before saving to the DB? Or, is a there a way to make them show?
For ruby 1.9 and Rails 3.0.x, use the mysql2 adapter.
In your gemfile:
gem 'mysql2', '~> 0.2.7'
and update your database.yml to:
adapter: mysql2
http://www.rorra.com.ar/2010/07/30/rails-3-mysql-and-utf-8/
I don't know much about Ruby (or Rails), but I imagine the problem is caused by a lack of control over your character encodings.
First, you should decide which encoding you're storing in your database. Then, you need to make sure to convert all text to that encoding before storing in the database. In order to do that, you first need to know which encoding it is to begin with.
One often repeated piece of advice is to decode all input from whatever encoding it uses, to unicode (if your language supports it) as soon as possible after you get control of it. Then you know that all the text you handle in your program is unicode. On the other end, encode the text to whatever output-encoding you want as a last step before outputting it.
The key is to always know which encoding a piece of text is using at any given place in your code.
i'm having problem to deal with charset in ruby on rails app, specificially in my templates. Code that comes from my database, works fine, but codes like ç ~ that are located in my views are not working. I added the following codes to my code
I added a function like that, but that still not working i have ç ~ codes in my application.rhtml that are not working.
before_filter :configure_charsets
# Configuring charset to UTF-8 def configure_charsets
headers["Content-Type"] = "text/html; charset=UTF-8"
end
I added as well meta http-equiv html to utf-8 and a .htaccess parameter AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
That's still not working, any other tip?
Put this piece of code in your config (environment.rb)
Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
config.action_controller.default_charset = "iso-8859-1"
end
This will do it.
Also, remove the default charset line if any in layouts/application.html
Is the text editor you're using to put the special characters into the file (either source or views) treating those characters as UTF-8? For example, if you're using TextMate, you can deliberately save a file as UTF-8. If for some reason you used a different encoding earlier (a default, perhaps), those UTF-8 characters might be getting transcoded at the code editing stage, so even if the rendering process is using UTF-8 throughout, it'll still not work.
Further, if you're using something from a shell, like vi, or whatever, is your terminal set up to accept UTF-8 as default? If you had it set to ISO-8859-1 or whatever, you'd get the same issue.
Is your application.rhtml file written in the correct character set? Make sure it's UTF-8, and not ISO-8859-1.
So if the contents of your file are UTF-8, and the output is being interpreted as UTF-8, something in between is changing the data. Can give give us the the hex interpretation of the input bytes (anything non-ASCII will be at least two bytes in UTF-8) for one of your special characters, and the hex interpretation of the output byte or bytes? Perhaps we can figure out what the change is, and work back from there.