How can I avoid putting the magic encoding comment on top of every UTF-8 file in Ruby 1.9?

Question

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 a

Answer 1

I think you can either

1. use -E utf-8 command line argument to ruby, or
2. set your RUBYOPT environment variable to "-E utf-8"