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
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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.
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