From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-12-16T00:23:42+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9.1: Encoding trouble: broken US-ASCII String

On Dec 15, 2008, at 8:50 AM, Brian Candler wrote:

> Wouldn't it be kinder to default to BINARY if the encoding is
> unspecified?

The default encoding is pulled from your environment:  LANG or  
LC_CTYPE, I believe.  This is very important and it makes simple  
scripting fit in well with the environment.

James Edward Gray II