HowToUseUnicodeStrings in Ruby on Rails

Note that this guide covers the recent versions of Rails, if you are stuck with an older version take a look at the UnicodeStringsInOldRails A short intro While Ruby doesn’t have any specific facilities for managing Unicode strings, you can store UTF-8 encoded data in your 8-bit strings. However some of the String methods assume a single byte encoding and therefore return wrong results. Besides, w