Rails 3 - Ruby 1.9.2 - cannot output correctly HTML special characters

Erwin1 · August 9, 2010, 11:54am

this is my first Rails3-Ruby 1.9.2 test app.. I cannot out a simple html string w special characters like ©

using copyright in my view, I see displayed

what's wrong ? what's missing somewhere (was running well in Rails 2.3-Ruby 1..8.7 )

thanks fyi

Peter_De_Berdt · August 9, 2010, 12:09pm

HTML escaping is done by default in Rails 3:

The solution in is the posts above.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

Erwin1 · August 9, 2010, 1:38pm

Thanks Peter .. I missed that : copyright.html_safe

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