From: Alexey Petrushin Date: 2011-03-07T12:22:58+09:00 Subject: Re: UTF-8 support - still stuck Add this line to your ~/.profile. export RUBYOPT="-Ku -rrubygems" Sadly, there's no other way to set global default source encoding in ruby 1.9 :( -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.