From: Tom Link <micathom@...>
Date: 2008-12-15T21:52:40+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9.1: Encoding trouble: broken US-ASCII String

> text = File.read("text.txt", :encoding=>"ISO-8859-1")

Unfortunately, this isn't compatible with ruby 1.8. A script that uses
such a construct runs only with ruby 1.9. Sigh.

Many thanks for the pointer to the other thread over at ruby core.

Regards,
Thomas.