Ruby on Rails 3, incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT with i18n

Question

I\'ve got some troubles with the couple Rails 3.0.1, Ruby 1.9.2 and my website localization.

The problem is quite simple, i\'ve got something like that in a view :

Answer 1

Ok so problem solved after some hours of googling...

There was actually two bugs in my code. The first one was a file encoding error and the second was the problem with the MySQL Data base configuration.

First, to solve the error caused by MySQL I used this two articles :

http://www.dotkam.com/2008/09/14/configure-rails-and-mysql-to-support-utf-8/

http://www.rorra.com.ar/2010/07/30/rails-3-mysql-and-utf-8/

Second, to solve the file encoding problem I added these 2 lines in my config/environment.rb

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

Hopefully this will help someone :)