How do I change my default charset from ANSI to Unicode in my project?

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How do I change my default charset from ANSI to Unicode in my project? When I write special characters as Æ Ø Å in my view that is ANSI it renders a error. But if I change the file to UTF-8 encoding it renders the special characters without a error. Should I then change all my view files from ANSI encoding to UTF-8 ?

Can you describe your problem? I didn't have to change a thing to use unicode. — Nikita Rybak
– Nikita Rybak, Commented Feb 26, 2011 at 0:52
Yes, you should change all view files from ANSI to UTF-8, cause using ANSI is an old standard. — kirilloid
– kirilloid, Commented Feb 26, 2011 at 1:21
Can I set utf 8 as default in rails when creating a new project — Rails beginner
– Rails beginner, Commented Feb 26, 2011 at 1:23

makaroni4 · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-17 11:24:07Z

Here is some rails magic - add this comment to your .rb file:

# coding: utf-8

and it should work)

You also can use Iconv class to convert your string to UTF-8 like this:

require 'iconv' ic = Iconv.new('WINDOWS-1251','UTF-8') new_string = ic.iconv(old_string)

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