From: "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder@...>
Date: 2007-06-09T08:20:19+09:00
Subject: Re: RoR Problems with special Character in the model

Joachim Reichel wrote:
> 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 ?

Have you tried using "Grundst\232cke" instead of "Grundst�cke"?