From: Michael Selig <michael.selig@...>
Date: 2008-10-27T08:48:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19526] Re: Default source encoding (Was: [Bug #680] csv.rb: CSV.parse is toolate when encoding is mismatch)

On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:07:13 +1100, James Gray <james@grayproductions.net>  
wrote:

> However, I can give a very real counter example to your scripts moving  
> environment example.  I work on TextMate and we use Ruby all over the  
> place inside that application.  I'm sure we have hundreds of scripts in  
> there.  We try hard to make sure everything in TextMate is UTF-8, so now  
> we get errors out of Ruby 1.9.  To fix, we need to add hundreds of magic  
> comments and worse, train our users who often write their own  
> automations in Ruby why they have to do the same to make their code  
> work.  So in our case, a default to UTF-8 or the local encoding would be  
> a huge win.

I too have been concerned about 1.8 script compatibility regarding  
encodings.
For my own interest, can you explain a bit more about what goes wrong with  
these scripts in 1.9? I know absolutely nothing about Textmate.
Do they contain multibyte string literals?

Cheers
Mike