How to use utf-8 encoded data in erb template

Question

I have an data-file stored with utf-8 encode, and I want to embed the data to an erb template. The data-file is explicitly encoded with utf-8 at the top. But while

Answer 1

If you're using Rails, have you configured default encoding, in application.rb? like:

config.encoding = "utf-8"

My Rails (3.2.1) project does not contain any configuration other than that.

Other thing you want to check is, whether your datafile really in UTF-8 or not. If you're using Unix-like system, you can use 'nkf' command to check the code, by:

nkf --guess FILE_NAME