From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2010-11-17T21:40:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9.2 commandline options

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.net> wrote:
> No, it still complains "invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)" on
> a valid UTF-8 character, in a UTF-8 file having no Unicode BOM.

AFAIK, BOM is not required for UTF-8 so it should work. Can you
isolate and post the offending line?

> The square brackets imply that the internal encoding is optional.

Yes, it is optional. I only specified both encodings as an example.

> Why is -K not listed in --help? Especially since it's the option
> that seems to actually work...

man ruby does list -K. Another option that is not listed in -h is -U,
which sets internal encoding to utf-8.

Regards,
Ammar