Sorting UTF-8 strings in RoR

Question

I am trying to figure out a \'proper\' way of sorting UTF-8 strings in Ruby on Rails.

In my application, I have a select box that is populated with countries. As my

Answer 1

Have you tried accessing the mb_chars method for each of your country strings? mb_chars is a proxy that ActiveSupport adds that defines Unicode safe versions of all the String methods. If the comparator is Unicode-aware then the sorting should work correctly.

• mb_chars documentation