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diff --git a/config/environment.rb b/config/environment.rb
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--- a/config/environment.rb
+++ b/config/environment.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
# Be sure to restart your web server when you modify this file.
+# the default encoding for IO is utf-8, and we use utf-8 internally
+if RUBY_VERSION.to_f >= 1.9
+ Encoding.default_external = Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8
+end
# Uncomment below to force Rails into production mode when
# you don't control web/app server and can't set it the proper way