From: spox <spox@...>
Date: 2009-06-20T01:07:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Default encoding in ruby 1.9

On Friday 19 June 2009 06:50:19 am Daniel Mendler wrote:
> 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

Perhaps use the magic comment?

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> a = "foobar"
=> "foobar"
irb(main):002:0> a.encoding
=> #<Encoding:UTF-8>
irb(main):003:0>

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> #encoding: ASCII-8BIT
irb(main):002:0* a = "foobar"
=> "foobar"
irb(main):003:0> a.encoding
=> #<Encoding:ASCII-8BIT>
irb(main):004:0> quit