From: Daniel Mendler <dmendler@...>
Date: 2009-06-19T22:50:19+09:00
Subject: Default encoding in ruby 1.9

Hi,

I have a lot of problems with string encodings in ruby 1.9. I always get
EncodingErrors because ruby mixes the default encodings. I have set LANG
and LC_ALL to a utf locale.

test.rb
-------

def encoding_sucks_hard(string)
  "hello " + string
end

And then
--------

irb(main):001:0> require 'test'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> 'test'.encoding
=> #<Encoding:UTF-8>
irb(main):003:0> encoding_sucks_hard('test').encoding
=> #<Encoding:US-ASCII>
irb(main):004:0>

How can I set the default encoding?

Daniel