From: "rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)" Date: 2012-07-01T22:15:17+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:46053] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6679] Default Ruby source file encoding to utf-8 Issue #6679 has been updated by rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas). +1 ---------------------------------------- Feature #6679: Default Ruby source file encoding to utf-8 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6679#change-27660 Author: claytrump (Clay Trump) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: Let's change the default encoding for Ruby source files from US-ASCII to UTF-8 in Ruby 2.0 ��� Convention over Configuration ��� Ruby 1.9 forced encoding for code that was not pure ASCII, so existing codebase already has magic comments. In Ruby 2.0, "# encoding: utf-8" can be the default. -- -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/