From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-08-25T20:36:16+09:00
Subject: Re: String#length not working properly in Ruby 1.9

Hi,

In message "Re: String#length not working properly in Ruby 1.9"
    on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:20:05 +0900, "Michael Neumann" <mneumann@ntecs.de> writes:

|Do I have to put a header like
|
|   # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
|
|into all my source files, or is there a command line option?

You can specify -Ku option for UTF-8 scripts, but I recommend coding
pragma, especially for library files.

|If I read from a file a string, it is automatically in US-ASCII encoding.
|How do I change the encoding, e.g. if I know that the file is in UTF-8?

Although it's not done yet, you can specify reading encoding for
files, e.g.

  open(path, "r:utf-8") {|f|
    ...
  }

							matz.