Hi,

At Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:00:30 +0900,
David Flanagan wrote in [ruby-core:12758]:
> 1) Why do the -K, -E, and --encoding options set primary_encoding, but a 
>    magic coding comment at the top of the file does not

Thank you, fixed now.  There was remained old code.

> 2) What can we do with the primary_encoding= setter?

Primary encoding would affect default IO encoding, pathnames,
environment variables and others.  But it may not be possible
to get changed while running, or should not be.

Also, I wonder if it should be global, not thread-local.

-- 
Nobu Nakada