From: Petri Kivikangas Date: 2009-12-19T20:39:17+09:00 Subject: Ruby 1.9 - US-ASCII vs UTF-8 So I have source files that contain unicode chars. Do I really have to put "# encoding: utf-8" at the beginning of every one of these files, or can I somehow make ruby treat all files by default as utf-8? If I can, does the change of default encoding from US-ASCII to UTF-8 make my programs much slower? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.