From: Sascha Ebach Date: 2005-02-26T09:28:06+09:00 Subject: Re: lis of languages (codepages) in ruby on rails marco: > i am creating a web page connected to MySQL > is there a list of available languages i can use? > TIA I think you might want to read this if you use MySQL 4.1.x http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp?p=328641 You can use any language you like as long as you know how to deal with character sets. I recommend using the utf8 encoding for tables and also read http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/Internationalization and http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/HowToUseUnicodeStrings Good luck Sascha PS: There is also a Rails mainlinglist: http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails