From: Benoit Daloze <eregontp@...>
Date: 2009-12-31T20:20:12+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9 hates you and me and the encodings we rode in o

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First, thank for your long and good answers about UTF8-MAC.

2009/12/30 Marc Heiler <shevegen@linuxmail.org>

> If I would have one wish open, I would want to have a compile-time
> option for ruby 1.9 where I could keep the old ruby 1.8 behaviour. Ruby
> 1.8 simply gave me less problems here.
>
> I am using loads of umlauts like "=E4=F6=FC" in my comments and ruby 1.8 =
is
> totally happy with it. Ruby 1.9 however hates it, refuses to run it, and
> I dont think I want to add something like "Encoding: ISO-8859-1" to all
> my .rb scripts.
>

Well, I think that's not so hard to add
# encoding: ISO-8859-1
to your scripts( what do you say of writing a small Ruby script for that ?
:p ).

I think that's something really good! Well, it's kind of not easy to know a
file encoding if not specified somewhere. Think a little about somebody
working with you on another platform, he will surely meets problems of
encoding.

So yes, I think is something quite useful and good for compatibility.


> I'd wish there would be more than one way to treat encodings - and one
> way should be to use ruby 1.8 behaviour, because ruby 1.9 just forces me
> to make all kind of changes before my old .rb scripts run again, simply
> because of the encoding issue (there seem to be some other minor changes
> as well, I have had problems in case/when code too, but the encoding
> issue seems larger)
>
> This is not really a rant - I am using ruby 1.8.x without any problem,
> and I actually LOVE that ruby 1.8.x is not feature frozen. It is also
> good that a language can keep evolving.
>
> Personally however I don't need UTF or another exotic encoding, so the
> encoding add-on is of no real advantage to me and rather a burden as I
> have to modify .rb files. I can see that other people have different
> needs. though.
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>
>

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