Set UTF-8 as default for Ruby 1.9.3

Question

I\'m on Rails 4 and Ruby 1.9.3

I use \"strange\" characters very often, so I have to declare UTF-8 encoding at the top of all .rb files.

Is there any way to

Answer 1

I think you would want one of the following, depending on the context.

Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8
Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8

This setting is made in the environment.rb file.