From: Perry Smith <pedzsan@...>
Date: 2012-07-23T22:57:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:46655] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #6679]  Default Ruby source file encoding to utf-8

If this seem to be too large of a performance impact, please consider making it a configuration option.

Making it a configuration option may be nice anyway.

On Jul 23, 2012, at 8:44 AM, mame (Yusuke Endoh) wrote:

> 
> Issue #6679 has been updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh).
> 
> 
> Clay Trump,
> 
> I'm happy to inform you that matz has (basically) accepted your
> proposal.
> 
> But not that the decision may be cancelled if the compatibility
> impact is considered serious.
> Naruse-san will implement and experiment it.
> 
> -- 
> Yusuke Endoh <mame@tsg.ne.jp>
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> Feature #6679:  Default Ruby source file encoding to utf-8
> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6679#change-28316
> 
> 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.
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