From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-08-26T00:51:00+09:00
Subject: Re: String#length not working properly in Ruby 1.9

On 8/25/07, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> |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.

Can we get an alternate form for that as well? -*- is a little
annoying to type; why not:

  # pragma-encoding: utf-8

(Done properly with callbacks, that could actually be used to give us
user-created pragmas, too...)

> |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|
>     ...
>   }

If I do this, though:

   s = File.readlines("foo")

How do I tell Ruby what the encoding of the string is? s.encoding =
'utf-8'? s.encoding = 'raw'?

-austin
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