From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" Date: 2009-09-02T17:36:38+09:00 Subject: Re: Annoying: cannot write ' user=" Iñaki ' in a Ruby1.9 script 2009/9/2 John W Higgins : >> >> >> >> Yes, that works... but I cannot  figure why is this required. I use a >> system >> in UTF-8 so the file is encoded in UTF-8. Also Ruby1.9 seems to work in >> UTF-8 >> by default: >> >> >> > See > http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/ruby_19s_three_default_encodings Thanks: "The first is the main rule of source Encodings: source files receive a US-ASCII Encoding, unless you say otherwise" -- Iñaki Baz Castillo