On Oct 1, 2008, at 5:09 AM, Martin Duerst wrote:

> There has been some disconnect lately between ruby-dev and ruby-core
> about default_internal. For a while, I planned to help out a bit,
> but didn't get around to it until today.

Thank you.  We appreciate your effort.

> IMPORTANT: The default for default_external is the locale.
> The default for default_internal is UTF-8.

Interesting.  So we are planning to legitimize the Ruby 1.8 strategy  
of always working with UTF-8?

I think that's probably a big win.  Fixing CSV was too hard.  :)

I'm surprised though.  I thought the whole point of the m17n changes  
was to avoid this.

James Edward Gray II