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copied!<p>Curiously, data were appearing in <code>I18n.backend</code> as expected but were not individually selectable using <code>I18n.t</code></p> <p>This led to the realization that the load path must be configured correctly for Rails to find the translation files, but that it was not parsing them properly.</p> <p>This <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7868309/#answer-8017048">led to @ANeves discovering</a> that a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark" rel="nofollow noreferrer">BOM</a> was disrupting Heroku's ability to parse the files which <a href="https://github.com/aneves/deficit-puzzle/commit/eea704726cbad6c04b747ac88a08bf7cf0a14354#config/locales" rel="nofollow noreferrer">resulted in the fix</a> of removing the offending BOM.</p> <hr> <h3>Wikipedia on BOM in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8" rel="nofollow noreferrer">UTF-8</a></h3> <blockquote> <p>The Unicode Standard <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">does permit the BOM in UTF-8</a>, but <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#cite_note-2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">does not require or recommend</a> its use. Byte order <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#cite_note-utf-8-bom-3" rel="nofollow noreferrer">has no meaning in UTF-8</a> so in UTF-8 the BOM serves only to identify a text stream or file as UTF-8.</p> <p>Many Windows programs (including Windows Notepad) add BOMs to UTF-8 files by default.</p> </blockquote> <p>If future readers are on <a href="/questions/tagged/ruby-1.9" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'ruby-1.9'" rel="tag">ruby-1.9</a> consider reading about <a href="http://gnuu.org/2009/02/02/ruby-19-common-problems-pt-1-encoding/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">common encoding problems</a>.</p>

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