£ Troubles

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I have <%= f.label :cost, "Cost (&pound;/m)" %> in a file _form.html.erb. When the form is rendered instead of getting "£" I just get "&pound;" being rendered. I am using utf-8 encoding. Why is this happening?

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If you're on a version of rails that has the automatic xss stuff enabled you should call html_safe on that string, or rails will pass it through h for you

Fred

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Bill Morrison wrote in post #960534:

I have <%= f.label :cost, "Cost (&pound;/m)" %> in a file _form.html.erb. When the form is rendered instead of getting "" I just get "&pound;" being rendered. I am using utf-8 encoding. Why is this happening?

Are you using Rails 3, by any chance? If so, then strings get HTML-escaped by default. Either use the literal £ character (probably the best choice) or mark the string as raw.

In general, except for &lt;, &gt;, &amp;, and maybe &nbsp;, there's little reason to use &entities in HTML files these days.

Best,

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Thanks very much.