Rails messing up FPDF / encodings?

rubyonrails-talk
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This code seems to break under rails and the console (1.2.2 branch), while working as expected under irb:

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Did some debugging on this issue, and found that my strings are getting mutilated by sprintf, which fpdf is using for string substitution, i.e. this is a kcode/ruby issue, and has nothing to do with rails.

Taking the discussion to comp.lang.ruby instead, thanks.

Isak