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Sometimes you want to have a drop down list in your Rails application that contains both the items from a collection of model instances and some other items that are not coming from the collection.

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Rails is great when you want to start quickly and 10 minutes later have your first web application up and running. This is because many things that are needed are pre-configured. This is true but unfortunately if you live in a part of the world where everyone speaks a weird sounding language that has characters that are not standard, you have to use Unicode.

I live in this part of the world where everyone speaks Greek. Somehow we manage to communicate, but that’s another story.

I want to share with you what I found the hard way. How to setup your Rails application to handle Greek language without any problems:

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