iso-8859-1 no effect in browser

rubyonrails-talk
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hi folks!

I want to use characters with accent, like: é, ç, ã, ô. Then I changed from UTF-8 to iso-8859-1, so I can use é direct, instead of é

<html> <head>   <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/ html;charset=iso-8859-1" />

The strange is that when I go in View -> Codification, it is marked Unicode (UTF-8). :frowning: But this is not the worst. The browser doesn't change from special chars to its meaning.

validates_format_of :email,         :with => %r{[_a-z0-9-][_a-z0-9-]*@[_a-z0-9-][_a-z0-9-]*\.[_a-z0-9-] [_a-z0-9-]*}i,         :message => 'est&aacute; incorreto'

It display Email est&aacute; incorreto. I want Email está incorreto.

Help meee! =D

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Have you tested with utf-8? That should have worked.

Fidel.

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tivrfoa wrote:

I want to use characters with accent, like: é, ç, ã, ô. Then I changed from UTF-8 to iso-8859-1, so I can use é direct, instead of &eacute;

That's not what the charset= is for. You should use the correct entities if at all possible, and neither your editor...

The strange is that when I go in View -> Codification, it is marked Unicode (UTF-8). :frowning:

...nor Ruby...

validates_format_of :email,         :with => %r{[_a-z0-9-][_a-z0-9-]*@[_a-z0-9-][_a-z0-9-]*\.[_a-z0-9-] [_a-z0-9-]*}i,         :message => 'est&aacute; incorreto'

...are bothering to read that directive. They are still defaulting to utf-8, which is good enough for 99.999% of all programming.

Further, both utf-8 and iso-8859-1 share many of the same Latin-1 code points, including é. Utf-8 merely gives the additional abilities to build the é out of an e and a modifying accent character, and the ability to read and write every other glyph in the world.

You would only use iso-8859-1 if you had a database with known iso-8859-1 strings, AND if you did not want to simply Iconv them to UTF-8 before pushing them into your HTML.

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tks! it didn't work in utf-8. if I use está (without the special character), it display an interrogation symbol (?)

Could someone try to use this => :message => 'est&aacute; incorreto' in some validation to see if it works?

How can I display "está"?

tks

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I create almost only spanish applications, all with Ñ ñ, á é and so on, and use ONLY UTF-8.

The meta directive <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> between the head tags does all the magic.

Regards.

Franco Catena.

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thansk Franco.

it works on the view, but not work in the model (at least here) did you try to add a message in some model with accent?

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Yes, i use it a lot, but in this form:

record.errors.add attr, :invalid # or any other

And then in the config/locales/es.yml

es:   activerecord:     errors:       messages:         invalid: "no es válido"

      # Custom for one model       models:         somemoder:           attributes:             someattribute:               invalid: "es inválido"

I never use it in the direct form, always with the I18n package. If you want a complete example see http://github.com/svenfuchs/rails-i18n/tree/master/rails/locale.

Regards.

Franco Catena.

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thanks folks.

I solved the problem using a different text editor. Now I'm using <a href="Plasma Code – Deportes, Negocios, Tecnología. It's an amazing editor, but only available for Windows. The problem was the encode of the files.