# Weird characters

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/weird-characters/36079>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [November 5, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/weird-characters/36079 "2008-11-05T20:46:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![11175](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/8edcca/32.png) [@11175](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11175)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/weird-characters/36079/1 "2008-11-05T20:46:40Z")

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Hi,

I have weird characters in my view, like:

Armeni� Jordani� Isra�l ect.

How can i solve this problem?

Grtz..remco

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**Author:** ![Tom10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tom10](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Tom10)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/weird-characters/36079/2 "2008-11-05T23:18:33Z")

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Do you have your charset set to utf-8 in the head of your html? Are the values coming from a database?

--Tom

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**Author:** ![11175](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/8edcca/32.png) [@11175](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11175)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 7:34am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/weird-characters/36079/3 "2008-11-06T07:34:53Z")

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TomRossi7 wrote:

> Do you have your charset set to utf-8 in the head of your html? Are the values coming from a database?
> 
> --Tom
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> On Nov 5, 3:46�pm, Remco Swoany \<rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net\>

Tom,

The values coming from my database (mysql).

My header is:

\<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"\>

remco

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**Author:** ![Tom10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tom10](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Tom10)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/weird-characters/36079/4 "2008-11-06T13:47:06Z")

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Have you tried changing the charset to utf-8?