From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-12-15T23:05:03+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9.1: Encoding trouble: broken US-ASCII String

On Dec 15, 2008, at 7:41 AM, Brian Candler wrote:

> - default internal encoding (not sure what this is, you can set  
> using -E
> too but it defaults to nil)

Default internal is the encoding IO objects will transcode incoming  
data into, by default.  So you could set this for UTF-8 and then read  
from various different encodings (specifying each type in the open()  
call), but only work with Unicode in your script.

James Edward Gray II