Can't get French accents to show for some error messages in Ruby on Rails

Question

I have a site which is in two languages: English and French.

There is a form. For some reason some of the error messages on the form display the French accents while other error messages will not. The pages are encoded in charset=utf-8.

Any ideas why this is happening and how I can fix this. I have even encoded the translations using both the accent and the UTF coding set for the accents.

I get the following results:

which shoes the unicode characters instead of the accent they are supposed to show as in être

thanks

Answer 1

I suppose you have Rails 2.3.8. The problem is on the translation_helper file that automatically encodes translations. To avoid this, you must append '_hmtl' or '.html' to the translation key or you can monkeypatch the translation helper.

More about Rails XSS protection: Rails 3 Security Strategy (that has also been backported to Rails 2.3.6+)