From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2011-02-15T08:08:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Cann't require UTF-8 files.

On Feb 14, 2011, at 12:48 AM, Josh Cheek wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Fernando Perez <pedrolito@lavache.com>wrote:
> 
>>> Are you using ruby 1.9? If so, then you need to add a magic encoding
>>> line as the first line (or second if the first is a shebang line) of
>>> your source file, like this:
>>> # encoding: utf-8
>> 
>> Is there a way to avoid adding this magic encoding line in each file?
>> 
>> That's really a metadata and does not belong to the source code.
> 
> Run with -Ku flag.

This is not a good solution for library code.