On UCS Normalization, that's reasonable.
But Ruby choiced Code Set Independent, so not a good idea.

Declare encoding and follow it is Ruby Way.

Jordi wrote:
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> Defaulting script encoding to UTF-8 would be a bad idea?
> I think most of the computing world is moving to UTF-8 as default.

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