Charset and POST request

Question

Hi All!

I have a Rails 2.3.5 application that is working fine with UTF-8 and international characters. Now I have made some integration to a payment gateway where I POST some data, wait a while and get a POST back. The problem is that when I get that post back the international characters are broken. Instead of "sørensen" I get: "sørensen". If I do an "iconv -t ISO-8859-1 -f UTF8" it gets correctly converted to the former (I do that from a OS X command prompt). I have examined the POST request with logger.info(request.headers.inspect) in my controller and I can see that no charset parameter is given.

The POST from the gateway should be ISO-8859-1 according to them - is the problem that Rails thinks that it is UTF8? Is that consistent with the issue I am seeing?

I know that one solution is to simply convert the params-hash with Iconv in the controller but I would like to know what is happening.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Jacob

Answer 1

can you verify that the request headers are set appropriately in the POST. you can see the acceptable values in the following link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_headers