# Embed poll\_feed fail with UTF8 title
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-poll-feed-fail-with-utf8-title/25776
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [February 27, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-poll-feed-fail-with-utf8-title/25776 "2015-02-27T13:15:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@MiguelAngelLV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MiguelAngelLV)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-poll-feed-fail-with-utf8-title/25776/1 "2015-02-27T13:15:46Z")
If you configure the embed with feed and the title has special characters, as **á** or **é** , the system fail with this error:
```plaintext
Job exception: incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8
```
And the backtrace
```plaintext
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/app/models/search_observer.rb:39:in `update_topics_index'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/app/models/search_observer.rb:63:in `index'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/app/models/search_observer.rb:89:in `after_save'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/rails-observers-0.1.2/lib/rails/observers/active_model/observing.rb:352:in `update'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/rails-observers-0.1.2/lib/rails/observers/activerecord/observer.rb:118:in `block (2 levels) in define_callbacks'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.8/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:424:in `block in make_lambda'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.8/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:221:in `call'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.8/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:221:in `block in halting_and_conditional'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.8/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:215:in `call'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.8/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:215:in `block in halting_and_conditional'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.8/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:86:in `call'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.8/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:86:in `run_callbacks'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:302:in `create_or_update'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/persistence.rb:103:in `save'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/validations.rb:51:in `save'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/dirty.rb:21:in `save'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:268:in `block (2 levels) in save'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:329:in `block in with_transaction_returning_status'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:199:in `transaction'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:208:in `transaction'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:326:in `with_transaction_returning_status'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:268:in `block in save'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:283:in `rollback_active_record_state!'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:267:in `save'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/lib/post_creator.rb:251:in `save_post'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/lib/post_creator.rb:74:in `block in create'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/lib/post_creator.rb:133:in `call'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/lib/post_creator.rb:133:in `block in transaction'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:199:in `transaction'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:208:in `transaction'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/lib/post_creator.rb:131:in `transaction'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/lib/post_creator.rb:69:in `create'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/app/models/topic_embed.rb:40:in `block in import'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:201:in `block in transaction'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:209:in `within_new_transaction'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:201:in `transaction'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.8/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:208:in `transaction'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/app/models/topic_embed.rb:33:in `import'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/app/jobs/scheduled/poll_feed.rb:39:in `import_topic'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/app/jobs/scheduled/poll_feed.rb:33:in `block in import_topics'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/app/jobs/scheduled/poll_feed.rb:32:in `each'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/app/jobs/scheduled/poll_feed.rb:32:in `import_topics'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/app/jobs/scheduled/poll_feed.rb:26:in `poll_feed'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/app/jobs/scheduled/poll_feed.rb:16:in `execute'
/opt/bitnami/apps/discourse/htdocs/app/jobs/base.rb:154:in `block (2 levels) in perform'
```
I change the line 39 of `app/models/search_observer.rb` from
```ruby
search_data = title.dup << " " << scrub_html_for_search(cooked)[0...Topic::MAX_SIMILAR_BODY_LENGTH]
```
to
```ruby
search_data = title.force_encoding(Encoding::UTF_8).dup << " " << scrub_html_for_search(cooked)[0...Topic::MAX_SIMILAR_BODY_LENGTH]
```
and works for me.
---
### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-poll-feed-fail-with-utf8-title/25776/2 "2015-02-27T23:08:22Z")
Go ahead and submit a PR for that. You can probably do it through the Github web UI.
---
### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-poll-feed-fail-with-utf8-title/25776/3 "2015-04-03T15:38:22Z")
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ea31edbf74ebc84f002dbda80bcdf94f5e8b280a](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ea31edbf74ebc84f002dbda80bcdf94f5e8b280a)
This topic is now closed. New replies are no longer allowed.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2015, 6:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-poll-feed-fail-with-utf8-title/25776/4 "2015-04-04T06:34:49Z")
---
### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2015, 6:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-poll-feed-fail-with-utf8-title/25776/5 "2015-04-04T06:35:07Z")
I think this PR caused problems with bootstrap so I am reverting it. Comments on the PR.
---
### Author:  [@MiguelAngelLV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MiguelAngelLV)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2015, 6:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-poll-feed-fail-with-utf8-title/25776/6 "2015-04-27T06:26:22Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
>
> I think this PR caused problems with bootstrap so I am reverting it. Comments on the PR.
I have a new instalation with docker. The first weeks I din’t have the problem, but after update to 1.3.0beta6+11 the problem return again.
How can I modify the file ` app/models/search_observer.rb` in Docker installation? I don’t find it.
---
### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2022, 5:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-poll-feed-fail-with-utf8-title/25776/7 "2022-07-21T05:23:29Z")
pretty sure this is resolved, open a new topic if still an issue