[Rails 3.2.3 / Ruby 1.9.3 I18n.locale :fr .. => accentuated characters => need UTF-8)
It's very annoying that I need to place an ' # encoding: utf-8' at the beginning of most of my Rails script files ... I can understand when using strings w accentuated characters in yaml files, but I just found another scenario in which I also had to insert it at the beginning of a model script file ...
I have a Partner model :
class Partner < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :area ... attr_accessor :location validates :location, :location => { :unless => Proc.new { |p| p.location.blank? } }
with a LocationValidator ( validating the location with Google via the Geocoder gem .. ) during my tests I placed a puts command to check the value before calling the GeoCoder.. as this value is auto-generated w Faker gem . class LocationValidator < ActiveModel::EachValidator def validate_each(record, attribute, value) puts "location: #{value}" results = Geocoder.search(value) ....
running the test , I got a warning in the console
../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p125@rails32/gems/activesupport-3.2.3/lib/active_support/multibyte/chars.rb:59: warning: regexp match /.../n against to UTF-8 string
location: 62, Chemin Albrecht Altdorfer ,72120 ,Évaillé ,France
I inserted ' # encoding: utf-8' in my location validator script ... wo any change , so I inserted also ' # encoding: utf-8' in my Partner model script et voilà, the warning doesn't display in the console....
It seems that we need to place ' # encoding: utf-8' everywhere when using UTF-8 .... which is the default ... I have in my environment.rb Encoding.default_external = "UTF-8" Encoding.default_internal = "UTF-8"
and in my application.rb config.encoding = "utf-8"
Is there any clear recommendation when using UTF-8 that could avoid me to insert ' # encoding: utf-8' everywhere ?
feedback welcome
