Red Squirrel Stumblog
Dave Hoover
stumbles through technology
Nov
16th
Fri
Watch out for ISO-8859-1 on Rails
Rails uses a UTF-8 charset by default. If you have latin1 on the backend, you’ll end up with a questions mark (yes, a “?”) instead of a ® on the front end.
Here’s one way to fix it
, but be sure to heed Brian’s comment.