From: "Y. NOBUOKA" <nobuoka@...>
Date: 2011-01-17T01:53:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [Ruby 1.9] New String rules?

Hi,

In Ruby 1.9, every String object knows the encoding of itself. So you
need to designate the source code encoding by a magic comment.

The style of a magic comment is:
 # coding: [source_code_encoding]
You can write other element in a magic comment:
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
If you write the magic comment, you must write it on the first line
(or the second line if the first line is a shebang) of your source
code.

example (the number of left side is a line number)
 1: #!/usr/bin/ruby
 2: # coding: utf-8
 3: str = "The non-ascii string: Zdefiniować nowy"

-- 
nobuoka