Hi,

In message "Re: Unicode roadmap?"
    on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:58:30 +0900, Izidor Jerebic <ij.rubylist / gmail.com> writes:

|But how will this influence the simplicity of small programs in Ruby  
|which deal with data in known (single) encoding? I was under  
|impression that there would be some magic global setting which will  
|enable such programs to use Strings in correct encoding.

The detail is not fixed yet but it would honor locales for the default
encoding.

							matz.