From: Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...>
Date: 2012-09-05T05:44:04+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get unicode support in ruby

On 09/04/2012 03:28 PM, Panagiotis Atmatzidis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I see that shebang: 
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> 
> doesn't work if not on the first line. Same goes for UTF-8:
> 
> # encoding: utf-8
> 
> needs to be the first one to get accepted.

This is incorrect.  If the first line of the file is a shebang line, the
encoding line may follow it on the second line.

> Is there a way to combine both? To avoid having program.rb ? I like more 'program' + shebang.

Yes, put the shebang line first and follow it with the encoding line.
:-)

-Jeremy