Ruby Unicode Encoding

Question

What is the Unicode encoding for Ruby? I know that most languages are encoded in UTF-16 like Java. I was wondering what Ruby was encoded in. I've checked the documentation, but can't find any reference to it.

Answer 1

There are lots of encodings supported in Ruby. Try typing the following in irb:

Encoding.name_list

Also see these blog entries:

Ruby 1.9 String

Ruby 1.9: default encodings