18 March 2008
character set woes

the story of my life?

My rails app running over mongrel is serving pages in UTF-8 (as it should be). Unfortunately the database I'm connecting to - which is read-only - is in latin1. So a lot of characters are getting garbled.

I can't change the db to be utf-8 so I guess i want to make the rails app run in latin1 as well???