Issue #6679 has been updated by drbrain (Eric Hodel). duerst (Martin Dürst) wrote: > I think this is the right direction to go, and doing it for a major > version (2.0) is the right timing. > > Maybe we can also on this occasion abolish the -U option and make its > action the default? Matz proposed that quite a long time ago, when we > were moving to 1.9. #5206 (make -K warn) may be relevant to removing -U ---------------------------------------- Feature #6679: Default Ruby source file encoding to utf-8 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6679#change-27727 Author: claytrump (Clay Trump) Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: naruse (Yui NARUSE) Category: Target version: Let's change the default encoding for Ruby source files from US-ASCII to UTF-8 in Ruby 2.0 ??? Convention over Configuration ??? Ruby 1.9 forced encoding for code that was not pure ASCII, so existing codebase already has magic comments. In Ruby 2.0, "# encoding: utf-8" can be the default. -- <lay trum/> -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/