From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-04-02T07:05:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23101] Re: What all does -U do?

On Mar 30, 2009, at 10:45 AM, James Gray wrote:

> The -U switch isn't listed in Ruby's help (-h).
>
> The new Pickaxe says it just sets the default internal encoding to  
> UTF-8.  However, matz hinted that it may affect the default external  
> encoding as well, here:
>
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/19552
>
> Can I get the official list of everything it changes please?  Thanks!

As near as I can tell from various tests, it only affects  
Encoding.default_internal() as the Pickaxe says.

James Edward Gray II