From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2008-01-08T13:40:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Embedding 1.9 Hi, In message "Re: Embedding 1.9" on Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:22:01 +0900, Dave Thomas writes: |In 1.9, do we also now need to call set_locale()? Do you mean setlocale()? It's optional. If you call it, Encoding.default_external will be set according to your locale, otherwise it will be ASCII-8BIT. matz.