From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-11-30T00:17:29+09:00
Subject: Re: File.new and encoding

Achim Domma (SyynX Solutions GmbH) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm still quite new to ruby, but have written a simple code generator.
> The generator opens some files and combines them to a new one. The
> resulting file is encoded as iso-8859-1, but it looks like ruby writes
> an UTF-8 Markter to the beginning of the file. Is that possible?

What's an UTF-8 marker?  I know only two byte UTF-16 marker but AFAIK
there is no marker for UTF-8.  Did I miss something?

> How can I tell ruby which encoding to use, if I write to textfiles?
>
> Any pointers to documentation are wellcome, but I didn't find
> something usefull using google.

Encoding is not an easy issue with ruby - I guess by default it uses the
default enconding of your environment.  But you can specify certain
(Japanese) encodings with command line option -K.  HTH

Kind regards

    robert