Hi, At Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:24:57 +0900, Tanaka Akira wrote in [ruby-core:13375]: > In article <E1IqOZI-0001t7-LT / x31>, > Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz / ruby-lang.org> writes: > > > The role for the primary encoding is the default for file I/O, nothing > > more. It does (should) not affect the source encoding at all. > > I think "primary encoding" doesn't tell your intent well. > > How about renaming it to "default file encoding"? Move to `IO.default_encoding'? BTW, I've felt the name Encoding.primary_encoding redundant a little. -- Nobu Nakada