Issue with character encoding in http request

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Hi there,

I have an issue with character encoding on http request that I need to handle in my rails apps.

Here's an example of my log :

Processing MessagesController#incoming (for 217.117.146.164 at 2010-04-02 16:08:27) [GET] Parameters: {"action"=>"incoming", "z"=>"Je suis un bon ?l?ve.", "alias"=>"33699425463", "controller"=>"messages"} ... some db processing... Rendering messages/incoming Completed in 39ms (View: 2, DB: 27) | 200 OK [http://server.mydomain.com/in/?z=Je+suis+un+bon+�l�ve.&alias=33699425463]

As you can guess I expect the system to receive the z value decoded as "Je suis un bon élève." and not "Je suis un bon ?l?ve."

Anyone as faced this issue already ?

By the way, I cannot ask the request sender to change his encoding method... On the other hand, I've setup everything in my app to use utf-8 which works fine...

Thanks in advance,

Christophe

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By the way, I cannot ask the request sender to change his encoding method... On the other hand, I've setup everything in my app to use utf-8 which works fine...

Well if you cannot change the sender then you don't have a choice - you'll have to convert the input (probably an iso latin varient) into utf8. The iconv library can handle a large number of encodings.

Fred

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Thanks a lot. I had some difficulties to find info about iconv, but it works. Christophe