From: "mame (Yusuke Endoh)" Date: 2012-07-02T03:15:29+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:46080] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6679][Assigned] Default Ruby source file encoding to utf-8 Issue #6679 has been updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh). Status changed from Open to Assigned Assignee set to naruse (Yui NARUSE) Received. Thank you! Naruse-san, what do you think? -- Yusuke Endoh ---------------------------------------- Feature #6679: Default Ruby source file encoding to utf-8 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6679#change-27687 Author: claytrump (Clay Trump) Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: naruse (Yui NARUSE) 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/