From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2010-05-25T19:30:37+09:00
Subject: Re: default encoding UTF 8?

Hi,

In message "Re: default encoding UTF 8?"
    on Tue, 25 May 2010 01:10:19 +0900, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> writes:

|Is this expected?
|
|>> File.read('picture.jpg').encoding
|=> #<Encoding:UTF-8>
|>> Encoding.default_external
|=> #<Encoding:UTF-8>

Yes.

|Shouldn't default_external be "ASCII-8BIT"? Who is setting my
|default_external?

It's set according to your locale setting.

							matz.