From: unbewusst.sein@... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Une_B=E9vue?=)
Date: 2010-03-12T01:40:21+09:00
Subject: Re: reading an UTF-8 encoded file

Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:

> If forcing the encoding of individual strings makes Ruby output them 
> differently, then I expect that STDOUT must have an external encoding
> set.
> 
> Try this:
> 
>    p STDOUT.external_encoding
> 
> What do you get? If you get something other than nil, it means that puts
> will transcode characters from the tagged encoding to this encoding.

I got nil ))

> In ruby 1.9, STDOUT.external_encoding is nil unless you set it 
> explicitly.
> 
> >> STDOUT.external_encoding
> => nil
> >> Encoding.default_external
> => #<Encoding:UTF-8>
> >> RUBY_DESCRIPTION
> => "ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-07-18 trunk 24186) [i686-linux]"
> 
> Perhaps the version of 1.9.0 which macruby forked from was different in
> this regard though.

yes right, I'll ask to the MacRuby list.

In fact, i do have also a buitin ruby 1.8.x but i'd rather make use of
1.9 because i do have to count UTF-8 chars and i know this is internal
with ruby 1.9 and because i might design an UI it's better using MacRuby
because it is written on top of Obj-C and Cocoa.
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