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He lost me at "Ã¡ la carte". Incidentally, no proper unicode support is why I never used rails (or ruby) for anything more than a tutorial. Yes, that was a long time ago.

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This is FUD. Rails actually does have UTF-8 support, and it's on by default, to the point of fixing bugs in IE to make sure everything is UTF-8: http://intertwingly.net/blog/2010/07/29/Rails-and-Snowmen

This has nothing to do with Ruby or Rails. Setting a proper HTML encoding (UTF-8) would fix it.

Hence "incidentally". Couldn't help but to make a connection.

Yes, you could help it. The connection you made applies to any language/framework.

Another way to phrase this is that DHH forgot to add

    <meta charset="utf-8" />

Beyond that, the expression isn't "á la carte". It comes from the french "à la carte" (grave accent, not acute).

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