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 don't run into this much, but when I need to ensure UTF-8, I use the $KCODE global. Try putting this in your environment.rb: $KCODE = 'UTF8'

Also, are you certain that your editor is saving files in UTF-8?