From: Luis Lavena Date: 2011-02-10T08:15:49+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:35176] [Ruby 1.9-Bug#4386] encoding: directive does not affect regex expressions Issue #4386 has been updated by Luis Lavena. Nobu, I don't see what you're showing: C:\Users\Luis\Desktop>ruby -v ruby 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-25) [i386-mingw32] C:\Users\Luis\Desktop>ruby # encoding: UTF-8 puts /.*/.encoding ^Z US-ASCII C:\Users\Luis\Desktop>type foo.rb # encoding: UTF-8 puts /.*/.encoding C:\Users\Luis\Desktop>ruby foo.rb US-ASCII We are having problems with this with Cucumber and Windows as regexp even on a file with magic comment of UTF-8 is been captured as US-ASCII and is not matching the results of backticks. Sorry, but I'm not understanding why Regexps are not following the magic comment as you showed. ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4386 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org