# Unicode

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unicode/184417>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 2, 2010, 7:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unicode/184417 "2010-03-02T07:28:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ash34](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@ash34](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ash34)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 7:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unicode/184417/1 "2010-03-02T07:28:00Z")

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I am using rails 2.3 and an existing oracle database with utf8 encoding.  
Also have the following tag in my layout.  
Can someone point me to any documentation for setting up my environment  
to save and display chinese characters.

thanks much

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**Author:** ![ash34](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@ash34](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ash34)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unicode/184417/2 "2010-03-02T22:31:52Z")

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Ash Rm wrote:

> I am using rails 2.3 and an existing oracle database with utf8 encoding.  
> Also have the following tag in my layout.  
> Can someone point me to any documentation for setting up my environment  
> to save and display chinese characters.
> 
> thanks much

works after setting NLS\_LANG to AMERICAN\_AMERICA.UTF8