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

I solved most of the problems by combining many solutions:

• Make sure application.rb has this line: config.encoding = "utf-8".
• Make sure you are using 'mysql2' gem
• Putting # encoding: utf-8 at the top of any file containing utf-8 characters.

• Add the following two lines above the ::Application.initialize! line in environment.rb:

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

http://rorguide.blogspot.com/2011/06/incompatible-character-encodings-ascii.html