From: Xavier Noria Date: 2008-05-02T05:55:49+09:00 Subject: Re: Searching for latin/umlaut characters in string On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:45 PM, John Butler wrote: > Ive read up a bit about uicode strings and the issues with rails after i > tried to save some data which contained an umlaut character. I got the > following error below when searching for a name that contained the > character é. > > Unclosed quotation mark after the character string ') Sounds like an encoding issue with the source code itself. Are you writing that "é" in the program? If yes, is your editor configured to write UTF8?