From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2005-01-16T23:11:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode/multibyte string support in Ruby1.9/Ruby summary?

Hi,

At Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:41:08 +0900,
gabriele renzi wrote in [ruby-talk:126677]:
> an addition and two questions: the encoding of the source file will be 
> indicated with the same approach of python:
>   #!/usr/bin/ruby
>   # -*- coding: <encoding name> -*-
> 
> or command line option (maybe -K ) or  compile time configuration time.
> But I wonder: why can't we keep using $KCODE for this and have to use 
> that ugly magic string?

Since encodings may vary per files, so -K would not enough.

-- 
Nobu Nakada