Why so rigorous?  I understand the need to maintain compatibility but
this effectively eliminates Visual Studio as an editor for .rb files,
without some kind of clunky build mechanism.  I guess I will just use
an extension method to get around the behavior for the time being.

>From the things I have read about Ruby and UTF-8, it seems more like
it is just extremely broken, rather than extremely tricky.  I still
cannot even get pure Ruby stuff in Windows to work properly with
UTF-8, like when using the Shoes toolkit for example.

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Curt Hagenlocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We do this for compatibility with Ruby 1.8.6, though as you can see, we don't 
> have the error message quite right:
>
> PS F:\> C:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe x.rb
> x.rb:1: Invalid char `\377' in expression
> x.rb:1: Invalid char `\376' in expression
>
> :)
>
> I believe you'll need to save as UTF-8 and then manually strip the BOM in 
> order to use Unicode source files -- hopefully Tomas will tell me if I'm 
> wrong.
>
> Source encoding for Ruby is extremely tricky, and (from what I can tell) 
> hasn't even yet been finalized for 1.9.x.  We will eventually support 
> whatever the Ruby standards are.
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