# Encoding system

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/encoding-system/131932>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 14, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/encoding-system/131932 "2008-03-14T14:46:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![jef](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@jef](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jef)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/encoding-system/131932/1 "2008-03-14T14:46:18Z")

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Hi ,

By default encoding system is UTF-8 for ROR request and ajax request.

How to change the encoding for this both type of request?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![jef](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@jef](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jef)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 10:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/encoding-system/131932/2 "2008-03-15T10:56:43Z")

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It seems ROR is not made for non-english speaker 🙂

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**Author:** ![jef](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@jef](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jef)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/encoding-system/131932/3 "2008-03-15T13:52:01Z")

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2008/3/15, jef [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

> It seems ROR is not made for non-english speaker 🙂

What’s wrong with UTF-8? It encodes all Unicode code points.

–  
non-English speaking RoR user

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**Author:** ![jef](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@jef](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jef)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/encoding-system/131932/4 "2008-03-17T20:36:28Z")

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because many librairies don’t support UTF-8 (ex pdf-writer; RFPDF,  
etc…)

Further more it’s difficult to built back office application with  
techno such as VB, MS ACCESS etc via Mysql/ODBC driver (don’t  
support .  
I can’t export data in csv format; Because Excel french version uses  
Latin1 characterset by default. Accentued character wich are utf-8  
encoded are not diplayed properly by Excel.

To my opinion Latin1 encoding suits better to French ( or other latin  
languages) IT system.

On 15 mar, 13:51, “Stefan L.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)