From: "Jean-baptiste Hétier" Date: 2008-12-15T19:56:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Accentuated function names Robert Klemme wrote: > IMHO it is generally a good idea to stick with 7 bit ASCII in source > code. Also, I would never use my mother tongue for source code, > partly because keywords are English anyway (even though Matz is > Japanese) and partly because English is the lingua franca of IT. I > know, this is not what you wanted to hear. :-) Thanks for your answer! Yeah, I'll probably switch back to English... but I'm still interested in a solution. In Python you can define the file encoding in some kind of file header: #!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: -*- I'm sure there's a way to do that in Ruby as well, but couldn't find it anywhere :( -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.