ASCII character in select box

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi all,

I've been searching for hours trying to find a way to display the euro symbol using the select method. My code is as follows:

addresses = @cart.company.delivery_addresses.map {|a| [a.description, a.id]} addresses << ["Other address &euro; 5,00",0] select "delivery_address", "address_id", addresses

The problem is that rails makes the input html save, does anyone have an idea how to accomplice this?

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So you need to include the character directly. Assuming your output encoding is UTF-8 (default in latest Rails), you can do something like:

   euro = [8364].pack('U')    addresses << ["Other address #{euro} 5,00",0]

I don't know if Ruby accepts UTF-8 source code, but if it does, you could just insert the character directly (if your editor can do that).

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Cool, works great (both the direct and indirect method).

Thanks for the quick reply (and the answer).