title: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) with Rails and Ruby 1.9
body: <p>I'm using Ruby 1.9.1 with Rails 2.3.4 My application is to handle text input</p>
  
  <p>If I try something like (the inside quotation marks look different)</p>
  
  <pre><code>text = "”“"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#&lt;SyntaxError: /Users/tammam56/rubydev/favquote/lib/daemons/twitter_quotes_fetch.rb:54: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
  /Users/tammam56/rubydev/favquote/lib/daemons/twitter_quotes_fetch.rb:54: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
  /Users/tammam56/rubydev/favquote/lib/daemons/twitter_quotes_fetch.rb:54: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting keyword_end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I need to user those quotation marks as users might input them and I have to account for that?</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>