Ruby 1.9: add "encoding: utf-8" header at application_helper.rb Following error raises in case that time log has non ASCII comments. <pre> ActionView::TemplateError (incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT) on line #5 of app/views/timelog/index.html.erb: 3: </div> 4: 5: <%= render_timelog_breadcrumb %> 6: 7: <h2><%= l(:label_spent_time) %></h2> app/helpers/application_helper.rb:407:in `join' app/helpers/application_helper.rb:407:in `breadcrumb' app/helpers/timelog_helper.rb:32:in `render_timelog_breadcrumb' app/views/timelog/index.html.erb:5 </pre> git-svn-id: svn+ssh://rubyforge.org/var/svn/redmine/trunk@7803 e93f8b46-1217-0410-a6f0-8f06a7374b81