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user2429888

Reputation:

Default external encoding in ruby 2.1

I heard that Ruby 2.1 uses UTF-8 as default encoding. But Encoding.default_external returns US-ASCII. Is this a usual case, or suggesting something wrong with my environment?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1033

Answers (1)

Yu Hao
Yu Hao

Reputation: 122383

UTF-8 is used as the default encoding of the source file since Ruby 2.0. Note that it's not the same as the external encoding. Encoding.default_external depends on the locale, for instance, LANG environment variable on Unix.

The default external encoding is initialized by the locale or -E option.

Upvotes: 3

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