From: Joachim Reichel Date: 2007-06-09T07:50:14+09:00 Subject: RoR Problems with special Character in the model Hi all, after two hours of googling I'll ask you ;-) I have an ActiveRecord class which I extended with a method that returns an array of strings as categories. One string has a special character in it. When the class is used there is an error: parse error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting ']' When the special character is removed or replaced by ue everything works fine. Part of the code: def rubriken rubriken= [ ["Grundst�cke","Grundst�cke"] ] end The source file itself is encoded in utf-8. Any ideas ?