Rails and html - encoding error

Question

in my template (index.html.erb) is no line for any code like utf-8 or anything. so rails of course has a problem with that.

    Your template was not saved as valid UTF-8. Please either specify UTF-8 as the encoding for your template in your text editor, or mark the template with its encoding by inserting the following as the first line of the template:

# encoding: <name of correct encoding>.

so i tried to paste this into my html: # encoding: < meta charset=utf-8 />.

did i write something wrong? or can i take any other code?

The answer from rails is: unknown encoding name - <

thanks for answering

Answer 1

That solved for me. It was my file that was not being saved as utf-8 after all.

https://superuser.com/questions/581553/sublime-text-2-encoding-utf-8

Answer 2

in your application.rb file paste this line

config.encoding = "utf-8"

or in your application.html.erb file paste the following line

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

Answer 3

Using Rubymine4, accidentally right clicked and didn't see what I had pressed... BANG! code = gone! Plus 1 error! I had reencoded the page to some crazy encoding. Just right click in page and -> save '[Your crazy Encoding here]' file in another encoding.

Rubymine, too easy! ;)

Answer 4

check if the file itself is saved as UTF-8.

This was my problem.

Using "e" as a texteditor or Notepad++ (or any other (windows) tool ) with wrong configuration may be the problem.

e (and i think Notepad++) was configured to save the files as "Windows DOS OEM (EP 437)".

I've changed this in the settings to UTF-8, saved alle files (withoth changes) and it works.

Answer 5

The meta charset is for HTML. You need to specify the charset for ruby, you can do it by using a comment like this:

# encoding: utf-8