From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-08-26T01:17:20+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 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:51:00 +0900, "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com> writes:

|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...)

"-*-" signs are for Emacs.  I just found out "-*-" signs are mandatory
for our pragma specifiers (it's not implemented by myself).  I will
relax this as Python coding pragma (as in PEP-263).  

  # -*- coding: <encoding name> -*-

or

  # coding=<encoding name>

or, even

  # vim: set fileencoding=<encoding name> :

will work in the future.

|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'?

I need to add optional argument for those methods to specify encoding
for reading files.

							matz.