From: Clifford Heath <no@...>
Date: 2011-02-15T11:05:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Cann't require UTF-8 files.

On 02/15/11 10:08, Eric Hodel wrote:
> 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:
>>>> # 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.

Right. Is there a good reason why Ruby can't just detect a UTF-8 BOM?
It's still "metadata" but a lot of tools deal with it.