Question

I did not mention encoding in my database.yml file.And now after parsing a site,a lot of data is saved with special characters.

Is there a way to change or set the encoding to utf-8 now?And what is the best way to do it,would really appreciate if you can explain it with little snippets of code.

Or do I need to do the parsing again.

Answer 1

No, it is not possible to do it without reconfiguring configurations and fixing existing data. Else, you will end up corrupting your db (some data in one encoding and some in another)

This should help:

1. converting-your-rails-app-to-utf8
2. configure-rails-and-mysql-to-support-utf-8