# Chinese display **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 12, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chinese-display/111868 "2007-08-12T18:31:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![daociyiyou](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@daociyiyou](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daociyiyou)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chinese-display/111868/1 "2007-08-12T18:31:49Z")
hello: I have built a project with Instant Rails.Now only a database and a scaffold based on a product model have finished.But when i inputted “…/admin/list” in my browser,i found my chinese characters cound not display normally.Then i made five steps: 1 ajusting encoding in my browser menu 2 in “C:\InstantRails\conf\_files\my.ini"directory,making sure “my.ini” file containg “[mysqld] default-character-set=utf8 [client] default-character-set=utf8” setting. 3 adding “encoding: utf8” in my “config/database.yml” file 4 making all the “.rtml"and”.rb” files saved in “utf8” way 5 deleting my database and rebuilding the database When i made my “three” migration using “rake db:migrate”,an error displayed in my console window saying “001\_create\_products.rb:14:syntax error, unexpected kEND,expecting $end”. How do i manage this problem? More important,i want to know how can i make my app to display chinese correctly. thank you! ---
**Author:** ![daociyiyou](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@daociyiyou](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daociyiyou)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chinese-display/111868/2 "2007-08-12T18:42:09Z")
On 8/12/07, Guo Y. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > ``` > When i made my "three" migration using "rake db:migrate",an error > > ``` > > displayed in my console window saying “001\_create\_products.rb:14:syntax > error, unexpected kEND,expecting $end”. > How do i manage this problem? > More important,i want to know how can i make my app to display > chinese correctly. > thank you! Well as far as proper display of chinese, can’t help you there, although you may also want to consider that you need to be sending the correct character encoding at the http level as well (either with a header or meta tag). But that error just means you have an extra “end” at the end of that file 001\_create\_products.rb. Try deleting it. ---
**Author:** ![daociyiyou](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@daociyiyou](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daociyiyou)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 10:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chinese-display/111868/3 "2007-08-13T10:22:20Z")
On Aug 12, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Logan C. wrote: > – > > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). For language display, encoding is the first obvious part, but the font being used must also support the characters in the code ranges of the encoding. OP is using rails which is all defaulted to UTF8 so encoding is not the problem there. Likely, it is the fonts, however you should also make sure your editor is also set to UTF8 for your text files.