# Character encoding

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/character-encoding/186879>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 13, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/character-encoding/186879 "2010-04-13T18:22:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![ESESES](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@ESESES](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ESESES)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/character-encoding/186879/1 "2010-04-13T18:22:24Z")

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I’m getting this for my templates, how can I change the encoding?

incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT