Source code encoding issue with Ruby 1.9 (was: Error running) about asciidoctor-pdf HOT 5 CLOSED

This is a Ruby 1.9 problem. In some ways, Ruby 1.9 has worse UTF-8 support than Ruby 1.8 because it enforced declaring files with characters outside of the BMP to have the utf-8 magic header in the source code. Ruby 1.8 didn't support unicode much at all, but it also didn't complain about this.

The solution is two-fold:

a) add the utf-8 magic header to the source file
b) advocate the use of Ruby 2.0, which actually handles unicode correctly :)

I'll take care of (a) for alpha.2.

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Btw, thanks for pointing out this problem!

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I verified this will work in 1.5.0.alpha.2.

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I can confirm the problem went away using Ruby 2.0.

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Ruby 2.0 ftw!

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