PHP-Side:
add this code at the beginning of the script:
header(“Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8″);

add this code after MySQL Connect (mysql_connect):

mysql_set_charset(‘utf8′,$link);

mysql_query(“SET NAMES ‘UTF8′;”, $link);
mysql_query(“SET CHARACTER SET UTF8;”, $link);

add this line to the HEAD of the page:
META HTTP-EQUIV=”Content-Type” CONTENT=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″

Mysql :SHOW VARIABLES LIKE ‘char%’
“Variable_name”,”Value”
“character_set_client”,”utf8″
“character_set_connection”,”utf8″
“character_set_database”,”utf8″
“character_set_filesystem”,”binary”
“character_set_results”,”utf8″
“character_set_server”,”latin1″
“character_set_system”,”utf8″
“character_sets_dir”,”/usr/share/mysql/charsets/”

enviroment.rb:
$KCODE = ‘utf8′
require ‘jcode’

application.rb:
before_filter :configure_charsets

def set_charset
content_type = headers["Content-Type"] || ‘text/html’
if /^text\/html/.match(content_type)
headers["Content-Type"] = “text/html; charset=utf-8″
end
headers["Keep-Alive"] = “timeout=60, max=256″
end

def configure_charsets
set_charset
end

database.yml:
development:
adapter: mysql
database: se_spiderdb
encoding: utf8
host: localhost
port: 3306
username: root

but not working

so if you can help me to extract proper content to rails ?