Get Ruby 1.9, Rails, MySQL and UTF-8 to Work Together Update: You can also try out my fork of mysql-ruby that is properly encoding aware. It doesn't just convert everything to UTF-8, but rather to your default encoding, so make sure to set your LANG! Hereâs a quick little hack to get MySQL 2.8.1 using UTF-8 in Rails 2.3.4 and Ruby 1.9.1. Filename: lib/mysql_utf8.rb class Mysql::Result def encode(v
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