Rails - Jun 2006 - utf8 and error messages

Hi, I was wondering how to access the messages that are generated from the
validation methods in rails (validates_presence_of, format_of, maxlength,
etc)


I need to change them to a different language (encoding type utf8) and
render them to my view without the messages that are generated automatically
from the validation methods - - so that in the end I can bring the
"error_messages_for_blahblah" and it will bring my utf-8 encoded
messages to
the view and not the generated ones. 

Thanks for any help in advance! 

Shai