Kenneth McDonald said...
> I'm having trouble when I write accented characters into HTML files;
> though the accents appear properly in my terminal, they are badly
> "messed up" in the HTML output. CGI.escape doesn't fix the problem,
> because these are not "special" characters line < or >, but simply
> accented e's, o's, etc. I'm assuming the problem has something to do
> with a character set type mismatch between the file Ruby is writing
> and what the browser (Firefox) expects, but I'm at a loss as to how to
> correct it.
>
> Any advice most appreciated,
Start by ensuring that you have the following at the top of <head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
Also, post the "messed up" characters; they'll tell us something about
the encoding problem.
Oh, and make sure your editor is writing utf-8.
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Cheers,
Marc