title: Rails 3 - (incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT):
body: <p><strong>incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>I'm finding lots of old information yet scant advice about this error message but wondered what the current status is as there seems to be less discussion of it around the net. It occurs for me when I try to render text from a locale file that includes accented characters, for example 'é'.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using rails 3.0.3, ruby 1.9.2 (and have tried 1.8.7 with same result), mysql2 adapter, utf8 encoding. </p>