I have a Rails project with a lot of Cyrillic strings in it.
It worked fine on Ruby 1.8, but Ruby 1.9 assumes source files are US-ASCII-encoded unless you provide an # encoding: utf-8 comment at the top of the source file. At that point the files are not considered US-ASCII.
Is there a simpler way to tell Ruby "This application is UTF8-encoded. Please consider all and any included source files as UTF8 unless declared otherwise"?
UPDATE:
I wrote "How to insert the encoding: UTF-8 directive automatically in Ruby 1.9 files" which appends the encoding directive automatically if it's needed.