From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2008-02-07T06:21:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Have the rules for source file encoding changed?


On Feb 6, 2008, at 2:24 PM, NARUSE, Yui wrote:

> Dave Thomas wrote:
>> Does the -E command line option no longer set source file encoding?
>
> -E command doesn't set default string literal encoding.  string  
> literal encoding is given by magic comment and -K.
>
> default string literal encoding was ASCII-8BIT at 1.9.0, and changed  
> to US-ASCII.

Forgive me being slow today--I've managed to catch the flu and I'm a  
bit shaky. I thought -E set the encoding for source files (and, by  
extension, the strings etc in those files). Is this not the case?


Dave