Hi
I am writing a RoR application that needs to work with a database full of french unicode characters, unfortunately whenever I try to display a field with those values in a show I just get a question mark or no character displayed.
So I decided to run a gsub (there's only 2 fields with this problem) on the field before displying it to replace the characters with their HTML equivalents, for example: french_name.gsub!(/é/, 'é')
However this does not appear to work, I've tried a few different methods for the regex after some googling but nothing seems to be doing the trick...
If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate your help!
Thanks!
