Jesus Roncero wrote: > Hi, > > ... > > - Accented characters. For example, if I have a accented vowel like "νΆ > they are not properly inserted into the mysql table and would get weird > characters. I guess that if I do a function that substitute every single > of these characters for its html entity (ie. í) would work, but I > guess there must be a more appropriately way to do it, right? Anything > to do with the encoding? It may be that you need to tell MySQL to use a particular character set http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/4.1/unicode.html might have some info. -- James Britt http://www.ruby-doc.org - Ruby Help & Documentation http://www.artima.com/rubycs/ - The Journal By & For Rubyists http://www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff http://www.30secondrule.com - Building Better Tools