From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-02-07T08:50:54+09:00
Subject: Re: STDIN encoding differs from default source file encoding

Hi,

In message "Re: STDIN encoding differs from default source file encoding"
    on Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:41:14 +0900, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> writes:

|So, if -K is deprecated, is it true that the only approved way of  
|setting the encoding for scripts, and for strings in scripts, is using  
|the magic comment? If so, that's a nice simplification (and a fairly  
|big change to my Encoding chapter :( )

I feel sorry for that.

|On a related note, how should I tell people to set the encoding in irb?

Scripts from STDIN (including irb), and from -e are locale sensitive.

							matz.