I receive "incompatible character encodings: CP850 and UTF-8" when displaying the £ symbol on my ramaze app

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I receive "incompatible character encodings: CP850 and UTF-8" when displaying the £ symbol on my ramaze app. How can I get rid of this error? I have the UTF-8 meta tag in my head tag.

It happens when I type the £ symbol with the keyboard. Look.

I have put the following code in my ruby file and it hasn't fixed the problem.

# encoding: UTF-8 
Encoding.default_external = 'utf-8'
Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8

So you already have this: `# encoding: UTF-8` on top of your ruby file? — K M Rakibul Islam, Aug 09 '15 at 23:22
To emulate the encoding problem on any system (or test the fix), you simply set the encoding to something other than UTF-8 when running Ruby: `ruby -E US-ASCII my_script.rb` Try this and let me know! — K M Rakibul Islam, Aug 09 '15 at 23:28
Check the encoding of your file using `file mytest.rb -i` command. If it is not `UTF-8` then change the file encoding to `UTF-8` — Amit Patel, Aug 12 '15 at 07:24
I changed the encoding of all my files to UTF-8 and I still get that error. — desbest, Aug 12 '15 at 13:02
One time, it worked for me to delete the offending character and then copy it again from a different, utf8, source. It felt like this :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8 — bbozo, Aug 12 '15 at 16:19
It happens when I type the `£` symbol with the keyboard. Look. http://i.imgur.com/eOGbsLT.gif — desbest, Aug 12 '15 at 16:37
I forgot the link here it is. @EugZol https://gist.github.com/desbest/4bd9581dc6603ff0e9ee — desbest, Aug 26 '15 at 10:27
@desbest To me, it looks like a client's issue, not server's. So you might be looking in the wrong place. Open your browser's console and provide screenshots of the request data please. — EugZol, Aug 28 '15 at 16:44
@desbest please show `request headers` section as well. And `response headers` of your initial request (for the page on which there is form). — EugZol, Sep 04 '15 at 22:00

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 14 '15 at 09:28

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Try to force the encoding to see if that makes the problem go away:

your_string.force_encoding(::Encoding::UTF_8)

If it does, dive into your app and spot what is setting the wrong encoding, where, and why.

It's possibly server-/webpage-related, as in the page you're serving is rendered as US-ASCII owing to a header. Or the server is started with encoding other than UTF-8. Or something other to that effect. Your script ends up with a piece of external data that isn't UTF-8.

answered Aug 14 '15 at 09:28

Denis de Bernardy

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Your line of code doesn't work. I tried this answer but it didn't work as I didn't have the `LC_ALL` variable defined on my computer. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5908774/set-global-default-encoding-for-ruby-1-9/17616076#17616076 – desbest Aug 14 '15 at 10:47

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 18 '15 at 11:34

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Windows issue? Try using Iconv:

Iconv.conv('utf-8', "WINDOWS-1253", X)

answered Aug 18 '15 at 11:34

Robert Pounder

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desbest · Answer 3 · 2020-10-29T19:25:51.933

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You must convert the text from UTF-8 to another encoding and then back to UTF-8.

content = content.force_encoding("ISO-8859-1").encode("utf-8", replace: nil)

Update: This answer didn't work for me, but it might help you.

edited Oct 29 '20 at 19:25

answered Aug 25 '15 at 18:48

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I receive "incompatible character encodings: CP850 and UTF-8" when displaying the £ symbol on my ramaze app

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