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Kelvin Xiong

encoding problem in json format response

Reported by Kelvin Xiong | July 27th, 2010 @ 09:03 AM

My app (using 3.0.0.rc) has 'utf-8' as default encoding, when I use @model.to_json, it return invalid character(\ufffd) for all foreign characters in database (mysql). But @model.to_xml work fine with the same data.

BTW, I have confirmed that this problem doesn't exist in 3.0.0.beta3

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  • rorra

    rorra July 27th, 2010 @ 09:42 PM

    I had the same problem with mysql and a utf-8 database

    ruby-1.9.2-rc2 > p = Project.create(:name => 'áéíóú')
     => #<Project id: 2, name: "áéíóú", title: nil, description: nil, start_on: nil, end_on: nil, created_at: "2010-07-27 20:41:06", updated_at: "2010-07-27 20:41:06"> 
    ruby-1.9.2-rc2 > p.to_json
     => "{\"project\":{\"created_at\":\"2010-07-27T20:41:06Z\",\"description\":null,\"end_on\":null,\"id\":2,\"name\":\"\\u00e1\\u00e9\\u00ed\\u00f3\\u00fa\",\"start_on\":null,\"title\":null,\"updated_at\":\"2010-07-27T20:41:06Z\"}}" 
    ruby-1.9.2-rc2 > Project.first.to_json
     => "{\"project\":{\"created_at\":\"2010-07-27T20:41:06Z\",\"description\":null,\"end_on\":null,\"id\":2,\"name\":\"\\ufffd\\ufffd\\ufffd\\ufffd\\ufffd\\ufffd\\ufffd\\ufffd\\ufffd\\ufffd\",\"start_on\":null,\"title\":null,\"updated_at\":\"2010-07-27T20:41:06Z\"}}" 
    ruby-1.9.2-rc2 >
    
  • rorra

    rorra July 27th, 2010 @ 09:54 PM

    Now that I check better, my problem was not with the to_json method, but rather with mysql :P

    Being p the record before being saved, and q the record after saving

    ruby-1.9.2-rc2 > p.name
     => "á" 
    ruby-1.9.2-rc2 > q.name
     => "\xC3\xA1"
    
  • Kelvin Xiong

    Kelvin Xiong July 27th, 2010 @ 10:04 PM

    rorra, did you figure out a work around for this issue?

  • Sebastian A. Espindola

    Sebastian A. Espindola July 27th, 2010 @ 10:28 PM

    Everyone running on Ruby 1.9.x and using MySQL, should use the mysql2 gem.
    It forces the use of UTF-8 and converts to/from UTF-8 automatically when needed.

  • Alex MacCaw

    Alex MacCaw August 30th, 2010 @ 11:31 AM

    • Tag changed from 3.0.0.rc, encoding, to_json to 3.0, 3.0.0.rc, encoding, to_json

    Switching to the mysql2 gem doesn't completely solve the problem.

    For example:

    "".to_json.encoding #<Encoding:UTF-8> [].to_json.encoding #<Encoding:US-ASCII>

    Attached is a patch which fixes the issue.

  • Margaret

    Margaret November 29th, 2010 @ 11:23 PM

    Alex,
    If I have older versions for ruby and for rails, I have to update both, install the mysql2 gem and update the database data?

    The path you are talking about ... i font understand :(

    Tnk.

    Margaret

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    rails March 1st, 2011 @ 12:00 AM

    • Tag changed from 3.0, 3.0.0.rc, encoding, to_json to 30, 300rc, encoding, to_json
    • State changed from “new” to “open”

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  • rails

    rails March 1st, 2011 @ 12:00 AM

    • State changed from “open” to “stale”
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  • kalyan

    kalyan May 7th, 2011 @ 11:11 AM

    I had the same problem with rendering response as json. I'm uploading images to the database, while rendering it as json

    Eg: render :json => material.to_json

    I'm getting following error

    ArgumentError in ApiController#download_object

    redundant UTF-8 sequence

    But the same thing is working fine with to_xml. Please any one let me know what is the issue here.

    Thanks..

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