Kenneth McDonald said... > I'm having trouble when I write accented characters into HTML files; > though the accents appear properly in my terminal, they are badly > "messed up" in the HTML output. CGI.escape doesn't fix the problem, > because these are not "special" characters line < or >, but simply > accented e's, o's, etc. I'm assuming the problem has something to do > with a character set type mismatch between the file Ruby is writing > and what the browser (Firefox) expects, but I'm at a loss as to how to > correct it. > > Any advice most appreciated, Start by ensuring that you have the following at the top of <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> Also, post the "messed up" characters; they'll tell us something about the encoding problem. Oh, and make sure your editor is writing utf-8. -- Cheers, Marc