Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· mejarc

Default string encoding

#ruby
#encoding

In Ruby, will be 'US-ASCII'...

"foobar".encoding

...unless one has a comment on the script file's first line specifying otherwise:

# encoding: utf-8

"foobar".encoding  #UTF-8
#ruby
#encoding

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