Wait! I noticed that on my freeBSD box, the locale environment variables are not set.
$ locale LANG= LC_CTYPE="C" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_ALL= Also this problem does not happen in development mode! $ ./script/console Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.8) >> puts Encoding.default_internal UTF-8 => nil $ RAILS_ENV=production ./script/console Loading production environment (Rails 2.3.8) /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/vendor/i18n-0.3.7/i18n/backend/base.rb:244:in `read': "\xC3" on US-ASCII (Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError) Any idea? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

