umlaute in selectbox

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I've got a form.select that takes the choices from an array in the model customer_adresse. When I write "ü" and "ä" in the prompt and the keys of the array, I see "ü" and "ä" in the selectbox. When I simply write these characters, I get quadrat signs. The signs have ascii codes 129 and 132.

I've set "encoding: utf8", but actually, the database shouldn't be concerned with this problem.

As I'm using Rails 2.0, I think I don't need to use ActionController::Base.default_charset=("UTF-8")

I'm trying to use the parameter html_options, but nothing has changed.

    <% form_for :customer_adresse, :url => { :action => :save_adresse } do |form| %>           <%= form.select :bundesland, CustomerAdresse::BUNDESLAENDER, options={:prompt => "Bitte w&auml;hlen Sie aus"}, html_options={'accept-charset' => 'utf-8'} %>     <% end %>

  BUNDESLAENDER = [     # Displayed stored in db     ["Baden-W&uuml;rttemberg", 1],     ["Bayern", 2],     ["Berlin", 3],     ["Brandenburg", 4],     ["Bremen", 5],     ["Hamburg", 6],     ["Hessen", 7],     ["Mecklenburg-Vorpommern", 8],     ["Niedersachsen", 9],     ["Nordrhein-Westfalen", 10],     ["Rheinland-Pfalz", 11],     ["Saarland", 12],     ["Sachsen", 13],     ["Sachsen-Anhalt", 14],     ["Schleswig-Holstein", 15],     ["Th&uuml;ringen", 16]   ]

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It seems that my files must be in utf-8. I've set the charset of the view to utf-8, so the umlaut in the prompt is displayed correctly.

The problem seems to be that rails can't deal with models in utf-8 charset. I get a syntax error when I set the charset of customer_adresse.rb to utf-8.

Any idea how to handle this?

Thanks Luma