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Issue #13488 has been updated by MSP-Greg (Greg L).


usa (Usaku NAKAMURA) wrote:

> Come Japan and check Japanese Windows users' text files :)

On the topic of Japanese Windows users, what type of Ruby builds are they using, mswin or MinGW?


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Feature #13488: Set Encoding.default_external to UTF-8 on Windows
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13488#change-64485

* Author: larskanis (Lars Kanis)
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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Currently Encoding.default_external is set to the local ANSI encoding of the Windows installation unless changed per option `-E`. This is cp850 for Western Europe. It should be changed to UTF-8.

The current setting is a major interoperability issue and it is neither useful nor expected, because nobody seriously uses the ancient locale dependent cpXYZ encodings for file content.

If a native encoding shall be used, it should be UTF-16 on Windows. However UTF-16 would make interoperability and compatibility even more difficult. So the only reliable choice for default_external is UTF-8, IMHO.

This is already patched per [1] in the upcoming RubyInstaller-2.4 for Windows release. It additionally requires a few changes to MRIs encoding tests.


[1] https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller2/blob/master/recipes/compile/ruby-2.4.1/0005-utf-8-default-encoding.patch




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