In message "[ruby-talk:01059] Locales and codesets"
    on 00/01/06, Dave Thomas <Dave / thomases.com> writes:

|On a related note-is there an English description of what -K and
|$KCODE do anywhere?

They are omitted from English document on purpose.  I consider them as
domestic features, which probably require redesign in the future to
support real I18N.  Ruby currently supports Japanese specific L10N.

							matz.