Ruby on Rails

It depends.

If the strings are entered by the user you should stay away from using
html_safe because you open your application to html injection attacks.

If the strings come from a trusted source, it is OK to use html_safe.

On Dec 18, 5:50 pm, Linus Pettersson <linus.petters...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm importing lots of products via XML. Some characters like the swedish å,
> ä, ö are encoded as &aring; for instance. When I print it I just append
> .html_safe to make it appear correct.
>
> Is this a good and safe approach or should I convert the characters in some
> other way?

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