From: Panagiotis Atmatzidis <ml@...>
Date: 2012-09-05T05:53:59+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get unicode support in ruby

Hello,

Yes you're write, it must be in the 2nd line though, if it's in the 3rd like:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# encoding: UTF-8

Doesn't work :-)

must be:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding: UTF-8

thanks :-)

On 4 Σεπ 2012, at 23:44 , Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@bopp.net> wrote:

> 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
> 


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