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Asked: 2026-05-20T11:14:35+00:00

I’ve got some troubles with the couple Rails 3.0.1, Ruby 1.9.2 and my website

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I’ve got some troubles with the couple Rails 3.0.1, Ruby 1.9.2 and my website localization.

The problem is quite simple, i’ve got something like that in a view :

f.input :zip_code, :label => I18n.t('labels.zip_code')

and a es.yml file :

es:
  labels:
    zip_code: "Este código postal no es valido."

There are no troubles with the en.yml file (it’s pure ASCII) but when the website is set with i18n.locale == 'es' I get this error :

incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT

I have been looking around for quite a while but didn’t found a way to use my UTF-8 translation files.

Did some knows how to make it works ?

Thanks for your help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok so problem solved after some hours of googling…

    There was actually two bugs in my code. The first one was a file encoding error and the second was the problem with the MySQL Data base configuration.

    First, to solve the error caused by MySQL I used this two articles :

    http://www.dotkam.com/2008/09/14/configure-rails-and-mysql-to-support-utf-8/

    http://www.rorra.com.ar/2010/07/30/rails-3-mysql-and-utf-8/

    Second, to solve the file encoding problem I added these 2 lines in my config/environment.rb

    Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8
Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8

    Hopefully this will help someone 🙂

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