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Asked: 2026-06-05T03:11:07+00:00

I get characters like ’ … †“ †‘ from DB. The table

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I get characters like ’ … – “ †‘ from DB. The table from which i am fetching is in latin1 character set. I need to show these characters properly. How to do this in Ruby on rails? Is there a function or piece of code which will replace these characters with correct ones?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You probably need to set the encoding of the DB string. Try the encode method of String:

    dbstr.encode("iso-8859-1")

    There are plenty of other encodings if ISO 8859 1 doesn’t work for you. If the users browser doesn’t support the right encoding, there are options you can pass to encode to get it to replace unknowns with ?s, etc.

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