From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2008-01-08T16:59:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Embedding 1.9

On 08/01/2008, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Embedding 1.9"
>     on Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:22:01 +0900, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> 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.
>

However, calling setlocale should not break ruby 1.9 since the
interpreter does it as well ;-)

Thanks

Michal