I'm running into a really strange phenomena after upgrading from Rails 2.3/Ruby 1.8 to Rails 3/Ruby 1.9. As I mentioned in the title, I'm using Postgres, along with the pg gem 0.10.0.
When I make a call to a model's string or text fields that contain Unicode, it works correctly, and they are returned with an encoding of UTF-8.
However, I also make use of serialized Hashes in a number of models, and whenever I make a call to read their contents (which worked perfectly prior to the upgrade), I get the following puzzling behavior:
- If the contents contains Unicode data, it returns as ASCII, and is displayed as escaped characters.
- If the contents contains ASCII data, it returns as UTF-8 (correctly), and is properly displayed.
I can simply re-encode the Unicode-returned-as-ASCII strings back to UTF-8, and everything will work fine. However, that is definitely a hack, and doesn't strike me as a good approach.
Is there a way to make serialized UTF-8 fields display correctly? If this is a bug somewhere, any idea where, and if it's known already?
