Rails - Apache - Japanese text:?

Is anybody aware of any special issues Rails has with Japanese/Chinese
characters?
My database is peachy, the application works fine on my local machine
when I run it off of WEBrick, but for some reason when I host it
(Dreamhost) all of the Japanese characters come up “???”. I’ve run
killall like five times to restart the server too, so all I can come up
with is that it’s the combination of Rails and Apache, but that doesn’t
seem to make sense either. Is this a real issue or am I just on crack
and missing an obvious fix?