invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) with Rails and Ruby 1.9

ruby-1.9, ruby-on-rails

Solution

Have you tried adding a magic comment in the script where you use non-ASCII chars? It should go on top of the script.

#!/bin/env ruby
# encoding: utf-8

It worked for me like a charm.

Problem

I'm using Ruby 1.9.1 with Rails 2.3.4 My application is to handle text input If I try something like (the inside quotation marks look different) ``` text = "”“" ``` I get the following error: ``` #<SyntaxError: /Users/tammam56/rubydev/favquote/lib/daemons/twitter_quotes_fetch.rb:54: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) /Users/tammam56/rubydev/favquote/lib/daemons/twitter_quotes_fetch.rb:54: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) /Users/tammam56/rubydev/favquote/lib/daemons/twitter_quotes_fetch.rb:54: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting keyword_end ``` I need to user those quotation marks as users might input them and I have to account for that? Any ideas?

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