From: Zed Shaw <zedshaw@...>
Date: 2006-06-04T06:01:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [Mongrel] I want to change the default encoding to utf-8

On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 03:39 +0900, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using mongrel_rails 0.3.12.4 to start a radiantcms site 
> (http://radiantcms.org/) and all the pages/snippets/layouts I'm using 
> are in utf-8.  By default, mongrel sends "text/html" as content-type w/o 
> any indication of charset and browsers thus assume iso-8859-1 (as they 
> should).
> 
> I've tried to follow the HOWTO at 
> http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/howto.html but adding a mime.yml with
> 
> ---
> .html: text/html; charset=utf-8

Actually, Ollivier, there's a bug in 0.3.12.4 where the mime types
aren't picked up.  If you can, use the pre-release which fixes this and
many other problems:

  gem install mongrel --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases/

Then let me know if it's still broken.


-- 
Zed A. Shaw
http://www.zedshaw.com/
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/