I am working on a project and we are having problems displaying utf8
charaters. my system specs & settings are:
this is what i did and the outputs of it form ruby script/console. why
is it doing this to me?
data = Data.find(391808)
=> #<Data sponsoring_unit: “Dusseldorf Germany” … >
In the database it is Düsseldorf Germanydata.sponsoring_unit = “Düsseldorf Germany”
=> “Düsseldorf Germany”data.save
=> truedata = Data.find(391808)
=> #<Data sponsoring_unit: “D??sseldorf Germany” … >
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