# Embed poll\_feed fail with UTF8 title **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug\ **Created:** [27 Fevereiro , 2015 13:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-poll-feed-fail-with-utf8-title/25776 "2015-02-27T13:15:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![MiguelAngelLV](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/miguelangellv/32/121518_2.png) [@MiguelAngelLV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MiguelAngelLV)\ **Post date:** [27 Fevereiro , 2015 13:15 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-poll-feed-fail-with-utf8-title/25776)._