I am running a RoR app that pulls data from some event tables which

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Asked: June 14, 20262026-06-14T08:43:20+00:00 2026-06-14T08:43:20+00:00

I am running a RoR app that pulls data from some event tables which are using utf8_general_ci as collation.

The problem is that all my pages render stuff like this:

Atat�rk Stadi Nov 02 20:00

So far I have tried:
– changing the encoding within application.rb

adding
```
<meta charset="utf-8" />
```
adding
```
content="text/html;charset=utf-8"
```
all combinations of above tags with all possible relevant encodings that may apply to our content.

Document type is

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

I have also tried HTML5 and other variations.

I have not yet tried the iconv solution, would prefer not having to go down that road.

Does anyone have any idea on how to resolve this?

Thank you!
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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-06-14T08:43:21+00:00

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do you have a encoding: utf8 in your config/database.yml file?

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