#1446 Fix UTF-8 output for Builder - Ruby on Rails

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#1446 ✓resolved

Fix UTF-8 output for Builder

Reported by DHH | November 23rd, 2008 @ 12:14 PM

The following should not have been escaped. According to Sam Ruby there's a patch for the latest Builder, but Jim Weirich haven't released a new version with it. As soon as that version is out we should upgrade the bundle.


>> Post.first.title
=> "Iñtërnâtiônàl"
>> b= Builder::XmlMarkup.new; b.instruct!(:xml, :encoding => "UTF-8"); b.title(Post.first.title)
=> "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><title>I&#241;t&#235;rn&#226;ti&#244;n&#224;l</title>"
>> $KCODE
=> "UTF8"

Comments and changes to this ticket

Jeremy Kemper December 9th, 2008 @ 12:23 AM
This'll probably be incompatible with fast_xs
DHH January 8th, 2009 @ 09:22 PM
- State changed from “new” to “resolved”
And actually it's only a visual issue. UTF-8 doesn't care. Depends on Jim Weirich releasing a new builder anyway. Nothing really for us to do here.
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Jim Van Fleet January 16th, 2009 @ 08:01 PM
- Tag set to “builder, fastxs”
After verifying that a test containing DHH's sample above passes using the GitHub version of Builder (yay!), I can also verify that Jeremy is right that fast_xs will continue to escape those values (boo!).

I thought this might be useful information for others that find there way here, at the very least. I plan on pitching in a little bit here, but we'll see if there are any tangible results.
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Jim Van Fleet January 20th, 2009 @ 04:01 PM
If there are those that need it, I created a 2.2.1 version of builder available from GitHub here. You can replace the 2.1.2 builder library inside ActionSupport with it, and disable fast_xs if need be.
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Dennis Theisen November 29th, 2010 @ 10:41 PM
- Importance changed from “” to “High”
For anyone else having trouble with this:

Updating to Builder 3.0.0 seems to solve the issue and it finally works when you set KCODE = "UTF8"