Rails bug with partials and charsets?

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Hi,

Is there a bug with the use of partials and how the input from forms is handled?

My app is working fine if I use a plain view and form_tag, but as soon as I switch to partials and form_remote_tag I’m not able to

keep the input as ISO-8859-1

I’d like to use form_remote_tag, or at least find a way to keep the spinner and Ajax effects.

The code is available at http://pastie.caboo.se/73275 I’m running Ruby 1.8.5 and Rails 1.2.3.

Any hints to what I might do wrong, or what topics I should dig into, is highly appreciated!

Cheers, Martin Stabenfeldt

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Well, for starters, you've got <head> and <body> tags in your partial. That's got to be confusing your browser. Rip the first 4 lines out of your partial and try again.

My next suggestion is to try to move your _publish partial into main.rhtml. I suspect the problem you're having has nothing to do with using partials, and more to do with how rails, or your browser, processes AJAX requests. (Assuming that the two <heads> wasn't the problem, which it might be.)

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Hi,

On Jun 25, 8:01 am, "Martin Stabenfeldt" <mar...@stabenfeldt.net> > Is there a bug with the use of partials and how the input from forms is > handled? > > My app is working fine if I use a plain view and form_tag, but as > soon as I switch to partials and form_remote_tag I'm not able to > keep the input as ISO-8859-1

Well, for starters, you've got <head> and <body> tags in your partial. That's got to be confusing your browser. Rip the first 4 lines out of your partial and try again. My next suggestion is to try to move your _publish partial into main.rhtml. I suspect the problem you're having has nothing to do with using partials, and more to do with how rails, or your browser, processes AJAX requests. (Assuming that the two <heads> wasn't the problem, which it might be.)

Thanks for the tips Jon, I tried that but wasn´t able to keep the charset even after I made the changes you suggested. The only part that really needed ISO-8859-1 was CGI.escape, so I converted the string with iconv just before I passed it along to CGI.escape.

  iso_str = Iconv.new('iso-8859-1', 'utf-8').iconv(message)   encoded_message = CGI.escape(iso_str)

Cheers, Martin