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Lamer News -- an HN style social news site written in Ruby/Sinatra/Redis/JQuery
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Error when retrieving UTF-8 strings from database #162

Open JaapJoris opened 9 years ago

JaapJoris commented 9 years ago

When submitting a news story that has UTF-8 encoded characters in its title, the submission completes successfully but the resulting redirect produces the following error:

ArgumentError at /
invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII

For some reason, it is falsely assumed that strings returned by Redis are ASCII strings. I have fixed this problem in production by adding the following line to config.ru:

Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8