nothing but the script I used:
#install Mysql
apt-get install mysql-server
#install Ruby and relative
apt-get install irb libdbm-ruby1.8 libgdbm-ruby1.8 libmysql-ruby1.8 libmysqlclient14 libopenssl-ruby1.8 libruby1.8-dbg mysql-common ri ri1.8 ruby1.8-dev
#install rubygems
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/11289/rubygems-0.9.0.tgz
tar zxfv rubygems-0.9.0.tgz
cd rubygems-0.9.0
ruby setup.rb
gem update –system
#install Rails and dependencies
gem install rails –include-dependencies
#before install Mongrel,
apt-get install build-essential #we need it to compile mongrel and Sqlite3
#intall Mongrel
gem install mongrel –include-dependencies
#install [...]

I installed Ruby on Rails under Ubuntu(from /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local, I know, my default charset is en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8), and create a demo, by default, mysql (table type is MyISAM)supports UTF-8. But when I input Chinese character and save to database, the output on the web is UTF-8 code, not what I want, why? After searching, I [...]

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