Brian Candler <b.candler / pobox.com> wrote:

> > and no need for ":encoding => "UTF-8"" when running as user.
> 
> If you want the long answer to that question, see
> http://github.com/candlerb/string19/blob/master/string19.rb
> 
> The short answer is: (1) Ruby's behaviour when dealing with strings read
> from files is influenced by the contents of environment variables, 
> unless you explicitly tell it otherwise; and (2) sudo clears out 
> environment variables, unless you explicitly tell it otherwise.
> 
> > and notice that in both cases i do have :
> > LANG => fr_FR.UTF-8
> 
> The rules for locale setting are complex, and there are other 
> environment variables such as LC_ALL which take precedence over it. See
> 'man setlocale'

ok, fine thanks !

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