From: Ammar Ali Date: 2010-11-17T16:34:42+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9.2 commandline options On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Clifford Heath wrote: > ruby --help lists -E, which doesn't seem to work as advertised, > but not -K, which does what I wanted. Can someone please check > that the source code and the help message coincide? I'm not sure what you mean by work as advertised, but I would like to note that the syntax for -E is different that of -K; it takes the full encoding name, case-insensitive: ruby -Eutf-8:utf-8 ruby -Eascii:utf-8 Does that do what you except? Regards, Ammar