Incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and US-ASCII and Image format allowing just PNG

[Glauco Custódio]

Hi, I have used Serve and I am trying to add this character: á in one of my views, it has accent, but I get this error message:

Encoding::CompatibilityError at /welcome

incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and US-ASCII

I have tried add utf encode (# encoding: UTF-8) but I dont know where I must place it, can anyone help?

Another thing.. When I use <%=image 'imagename' %> Serve automatically look for "imagename.PNG", if I need to use JPG or other format? I cant?

Thank you.

[Jess Brown]

Hi Glauco,

I recently had a rails project where I needed the same thing.  My text was in a helper module, but I added

# encoding: UTF-8

to the top of the file and it worked. 

You would need to add a 

<%# encoding: UTF-8 %>

 

 to the top of your view file.  If you use it in multiple views, you might can try adding it to your _layout file (I haven't tried this part, but I confirmed that the line in the view file works).  Interesting note, for others reading this: if you're using haml views, this isn't necessary.  They must handle the encodings.

As for the images, I actually wasn't aware of the image helper.  I use the image_tag helper (same as in rails) there you can pass the format <%= image_tag("/images/image_name.jpg") %>  Unfortunately you do have to pass the /images directory in the pathname.  

Hope that helps, let me know if you run into any issues.

Jess

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