Utf8 and error messages

Hi, I was wondering how to access the messages that are generated from
the
validation methods in rails (validates_presence_of, format_of,
maxlength,
etc)

I need to change them to a different language (encoding type utf8) and
render them to my view without the messages that are generated
automatically
from the validation methods - - so that in the end I can bring the
“error_messages_for_blahblah” and it will bring my utf-8 encoded
messages to
the view and not the generated ones.

Thanks for any help in advance!

Shai