From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-04-17T05:23:05+09:00
Subject: Re: querying using HTTP

On Apr 16, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Brian Candler wrote:

> James Gray wrote:
>> But you bundled those files.  You know the encoding much better than
>> Ruby.  Is it really too much to ask for?
>>
>>   html = File.read("my_template.html", external_encoding: "UTF-8")
>
> Sure, *if you remember* everywhere this is needed. If you don't, then
> your program will work fine, and pass all your tests, until you run it
> somewhere else and it dies.

Well, I definitely don't think this is the first case of that in Ruby  
(or most other languages for that matter).  Heck, fork() isn't cross- 
platform and I love fork().

James Edward Gray II