diff --git a/config/environment.rb b/config/environment.rb
index bddadc8..c467462 100644
--- a/config/environment.rb
+++ b/config/environment.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file
+Encoding.default_external = Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8 if defined? Encoding
 
 # Specifies gem version of Rails to use when vendor/rails is not present
 RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '2.3.18' unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION
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