1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/config/application.rb b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/config/application.rb
index bd4fedcdec..0066e2b0c2 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/config/application.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/config/application.rb
@@ -46,7 +46,10 @@ module <%= app_const_base %>
     #   g.test_framework  :test_unit, :fixture => true
     # end
 
+    # Configure the default encoding used in templates for Ruby 1.9.
+    config.encoding = "utf-8"
+
     # Configure sensitive parameters which will be filtered from the log file.
-    config.filter_parameters << :password
+    config.filter_parameters += [:password]
   end
 end