[ruby-core:46111] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #6679] Default Ruby source file encoding to utf-8

> claytrump (Clay Trump) wrote:
> > =95 Ruby 1.9 forced encoding for code that was not pure ASCII,
>
> Could you elaborate?
>

Sure. Ruby 1.9 forced us to specify the encoding for code that was not pure
ASCII.

I'm no expert, but I think that in Ruby 1.8, you could write code using an
encoding compatbile with ASCII like 8859-1. Things would kind of work, it
would output the expected sequence of bytes, etc... at least as long as
you're using and expecting that encoding everywhere.

If Ruby 1.9 had assumed utf-8, that legacy code would now output the wrong
stuff, and you might not notice right away. Subttle errors, etc.. So it's
cool that in Ruby 1.9 it produces an error; you need to put the encoding.

So any code like that has the right # coding comment by now.

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