From: Greg.mpls@... Date: 2017-04-26T13:21:49+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:80877] [Ruby trunk Feature#13488] Set Encoding.default_external to UTF-8 on Windows Issue #13488 has been updated by MSP-Greg (Greg L). usa (Usaku NAKAMURA) wrote: > Come Japan and check Japanese Windows users' text files :) On the topic of Japanese Windows users, what type of Ruby builds are they using, mswin or MinGW? ---------------------------------------- Feature #13488: Set Encoding.default_external to UTF-8 on Windows https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13488#change-64485 * Author: larskanis (Lars Kanis) * Status: Rejected * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Target version: ---------------------------------------- Currently Encoding.default_external is set to the local ANSI encoding of the Windows installation unless changed per option `-E`. This is cp850 for Western Europe. It should be changed to UTF-8. The current setting is a major interoperability issue and it is neither useful nor expected, because nobody seriously uses the ancient locale dependent cpXYZ encodings for file content. If a native encoding shall be used, it should be UTF-16 on Windows. However UTF-16 would make interoperability and compatibility even more difficult. So the only reliable choice for default_external is UTF-8, IMHO. This is already patched per [1] in the upcoming RubyInstaller-2.4 for Windows release. It additionally requires a few changes to MRIs encoding tests. [1] https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller2/blob/master/recipes/compile/ruby-2.4.1/0005-utf-8-default-encoding.patch -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: