From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-10-02T00:43:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19073] Re: Fwd: [ruby-dev:36523] Re: Encoding.default_internal

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:19064] Fwd: [ruby-dev:36523] Re: Encoding.default_internal"
    on Wed, 1 Oct 2008 19:09:17 +0900, Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> writes:

|There has been some disconnect lately between ruby-dev and ruby-core
|about default_internal. For a while, I planned to help out a bit,
|but didn't get around to it until today.
|
|Basically, what happened was that in [ruby-dev:36523], Matz made a new,
|far-reaching proposal re. default_internal. Since then, various details
|(as well as the proposal itself) have been discussed extensively on
|ruby-dev.

Very important note: after this translated post, some people persuaded
me about several changes on it:

* UTF-8 will _not_ be the default default_internal (no pun)
* drop -L and put -U to set default_internal to UTF-8 (-L behavior
  will be the default)
* no drop for UTF-16

							matz.