Rails 3 invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)

ruby-on-rails ruby utf-8 ascii ruby-1.9
framomo86 picture framomo86 · Oct 12, 2010 · Viewed 21.1k times · Source

I found a similar post here but I can't solve the problem anyway.

I got this

/home/fra/siti/Pensiero/db/seeds.rb:32: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
/home/fra/siti/Pensiero/db/seeds.rb:32: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
/home/fra/siti/Pensiero/db/seeds.rb:32: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ')'
... ed il valore della vita, si è malati", :user_id => 1, :cat...

The problem is in this string

:body => "Nel momento in cui ci si chiede il significato ed il valore della vita, si è malati"

I got the problem with every "e" character with the accent, like "è é "

I tried to put magic comment # coding: utf-8 but it doesn't work.

Any idea?

Answer

Johanisma picture Johanisma · Nov 19, 2010

Instead of adding # coding: UTF-8 try to add # encoding: UTF-8 on the first line of the file.

It worked for me. I found the information here : http://groups.google.com/group/sinatrarb/browse_thread/thread/f92529bf0cf62015

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