From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2009-09-01T20:10:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:25243] Re: [Bug #2026] String encodings are not supported 	by most of IO on Linux

2009/9/1 Yui NARUSE <redmine@ruby-lang.org>:
> Issue #2026 has been updated by Yui NARUSE.
>
>
> Current Ruby thinks the filesystem encoding of Unix is binary.
> Because our initial research shows users of Unix expect it.
>
> As you know, Windows is UTF-16LE/Locale (see also win32-unicode-test),
> and Mac OS X is UTF-8.
> If some OSs or distributions imply their filesystem encoding,
> we can follow it.

Any distribution that sets locale (other than C) does.

Thanks

Michal