Re: Subject: [PATCH] * lisp/progmodes/ruby-mode.el: Set `ruby-insert-encoding-magic-comment' to nil by default.

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 02.11.2013 14:38, Bozhidar Batsov wrote:
>     Also see
>     http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-10/msg00236.html
>
>
> Disabling this by default is not directly related to improving it. While
> I think your suggestions for running this in an after-save-hook are
> sound, I feel that the majority of Ruby programmers out there no longer
> need this, so it doesn't make sense to have it on by default just to
> make people search how to disable it (unless it stops messing with files
> that are already using utf-8, which as you note is problematic for users
> of Ruby 1.9).

I don't understand what you mean with the sentence in parentheses.

Ruby 1.9 still requires "coding: utf-8" cookies in unicode files that 
have non-ascii characters. There was a problem with inserting it 
("coding: unknown" was often inserted instead), but that has been fixed.

> P.S. I also think we should insert the comment in Ruby style (e.g. "#
> encoding: utf-8") instead of the current Emacs style encoding comment
> (or make this customizable).

Maybe. I'm not sure what would be the benefit, but it sounds fine to me.