I got the error incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT, when the view found in the database some characters like: ñ, á, é, etc. My enviroment is: Rails: 3.2.5 Ruby: 1.9.4p194 Database: Oracle 10g (10.2.0.1.0) I can save this characters in the database, using Toad. I tried to write this, in the first line of my view: <% # encoding: utf-8 %> In enviroment.erb Encoding.default_externa
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