Rails View Encoding Issues

Question

I\'m using Ruby 2.0 and Rails 3.2.14. My view is littered several UTF-8 characters, mainly currency symbols like บาท and د.إ etc. I noticed some

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Answer 1

That error message usually occurs when you try to concatenate strings with different character encodings.

Is your database set to use UTF-8 as well?

If not, you could have a problem when you try to insert the non-UTF8 values into your UTF-8 template.