Rails encoding trouble in the wild

Thijs van der Vossen, 27 Jan 2006, 10:55 in ruby on rails and unicode, last updated 28 Mar 2007, 23:44 (edit).

If you’re still unsure if you should worry about utf-8 encoded strings, look no further than the Projectionist RSS feed:

See those &#82’s in the headlines list and the big R in the title? That’s where a poor right double quotation mark was split in halve.

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