From: ethan_j_brown@... Date: 2017-05-09T20:41:19+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:81079] [Ruby trunk Feature#13488] Set Encoding.default_external to UTF-8 on Windows Issue #13488 has been updated by Iristyle (Ethan Brown). I agree that changing the default to UTF-8 is not appropriate on Windows in a Ruby 2.x release. Should a change occur in Ruby 3 to make UTF-8 the default, I believe it would still be useful to gain access to the original Windows codepage as this may be the encoding of files. I was similarly surprised to see that the rubyinstaller2 project had made the change to make UTF-8 the default on Windows in the Ruby 2.4 installer builds, and I've filed an issue at https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller2/issues/38 in hopes that it will be reverted (another user has filed a similar issue report at https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller2/issues/37) ---------------------------------------- Feature #13488: Set Encoding.default_external to UTF-8 on Windows https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13488#change-64732 * 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: