From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-06-25T23:25:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16858] Re: national characters is strings

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:16848] Re: national characters is strings"
    on 01/06/25, ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:

| My question is probably stupid, but I've not found how to change the
| default encoding ?

Because it's not there yet. (I told you it's a prototype ;-)

| For example all file names returned by the methods of Dir (or the result
| of ``) use this default encoding, but how can I say that is, for example,
| "latin1" ?

I think there would be

  * global default encoding
    * global default IO encoding
    * global default String encoding

and encoding for things like `` value might use the global default
encoding.  It's better to have specify encoding for each case.  I have
no idea yet for how to specify the `` encoding explicitly.

							matz.