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My problem is simillar to Rails 3 invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)

Solution, presented there does works, but i find this a little goofy to include comment # encoding: UTF-8 to every file, that uses non ASCII characters.

In config/application.rb, i have following option:

# Configure the default encoding used in templates for Ruby 1.9.
config.encoding = "utf-8"

But, it does't helps.

Maybe, some another global configuration option is presented exactly for such cases ?

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AntonAL
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There is no way to default Ruby 1.9 to use UTF-8 for all source files (and yes, it's a huge PITA).

The config.encoding setting is telling Rails something, nothing to do with Ruby.

The best solution I've come up with relies on something that I haven't seen mentioned. There's another way to get Ruby 1.9 to see a file as UTF-8, instad of using that magic comment you can include the UTF-8 BOM (Byte Order Marker) in your file. Ruby 1.9 will do the right thing.

Now to the cool part - I use gvim, and it's actually very simple to configure gvim to put a BOM into every file that should have one. It's as simple as adding this to my .vimrc:

set bomb

Not sure if you're using gvim, or if other editors can do this. So obviously YMMV :)

smathy
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    Just to clarify "config.encoding setting is telling Rails something" as I was curious myself. It seems to set Encoding.default_external and Encoding.default_internal - at least this is what I found when I looked at the source of the encoding setter at http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Rails/Application/Configuration.html#method-i-encoding-3D – Declan McGrath May 09 '12 at 13:30
  • Yes, what I really meant was that this will affect the files that your app interacts with, but it won't affect how Ruby loads the source files themselves. – smathy Jun 15 '12 at 21:02
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You can set the environment variable RUBYOPT=-Ku when running the application, and it will make ruby (even 1.9) assume utf-8 encoding for all .rb source files.

For a rails app though, I would rather recommend not using that trick, and instead put your non-ascii parts in the i18n files and referencing them through I18n.t.

It's a bit more tedious to set up if you've already got your application up and running, but should you ever need to translate it into another language you're already halfway there.

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You can set this in your application.rb file if you are actually coding multibyte characters directly in your templates.

Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8
Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8

This is the equivalent of putting:

# encoding: UTF-8

at the top of every file.

Matt Schwartz
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