Incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT
How can I solve this error on Rails 3.2.3 and Ruby 1.9.3?
I tried to put these two lines in the environment.rb:
Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8
Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8
I am sure that application.rb also contains this line "config.encoding = "utf-8".
Does anyone know how to solve this?
Consider using so called magic comments on the first line of your .rb file with encoding:
# encoding: UTF-8
class Xyz
...
end
It is very important in files where you place text with accents and other non-ASCII characters. They are the primary cause of the error you mention.
Sometimes it may happen that you mistype a character and, instead of a letter, you insert a hidden symbol. Also check your file for these. Look at the line ends and in spaces.
