From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-02-07T10:16:51+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 09:08:29 +0900, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> writes:

|On Feb 6, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
|
|> I mean they SHOULD.  The irb does not work as I (we) expected right  
|> now.
|> Should be fixed.
|
|Ah, thanks for that. I was in the middle of an email about irb... :)

It should work if

  * you don't run irb on miniruby
  * you don't set your locale to Japanese

In addition, you will get  #<Encoding:US-ASCII> when you type
__ENCODING__ but it is intended.  Remember IRB does parse line by
line.

							matz.