From: Joachim Reichel Date: 2007-06-09T08:35:04+09:00 Subject: Re: RoR Problems with special Character in the model Michael, I did it with \u00F6 and after your post with \232 instead of the �. The code runs then, but in the select box in the view file there is an ? shown. The view rhtml has a metatag requesting utf-8. > > Have you tried using "Grundst\232cke" instead of "Grundst�cke"?