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Чечил Крым
Чечил Крым

Reputation: 309

How to change Encoding.default_external for whole system? OSX

I stopped program with pry, then I type 

[1] pry(Module1::Class1)> Encoding.default_external
=> #<Encoding:Windows-1252>

In another mac, default value of Encoding.default_external is UTF-8. I changed locale variables to UTF-8, and encoding in irb works fine, but not in project stopped. With byebug is the same.

System is macOSX, ruby 2.3.3 through rbenv.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 759

Answers (1)

Pascal
Pascal

Reputation: 8637

You can use the LANG env variable to influence the default external encoding:

ruby-2.3.4 Desktop$ LANG=en_US.US-ASCII irb
2.3.4 :001 > Encoding.default_external
 => #<Encoding:US-ASCII>

ruby-2.3.4 Desktop$ LANG=de_CH.UTF-8 irb
2.3.4 :001 > Encoding.default_external
 => #<Encoding:UTF-8>

it is also possible to override it with the -E options:

ruby-2.3.4 Desktop$ LANG=en_US.US-ASCII irb -E utf-8
2.3.4 :001 > Encoding.default_external
 => #<Encoding:UTF-8>

Upvotes: 2

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