* ruby.c (load_file_internal): set default source encoding as

  UTF-8 instead of US-ASCII. [ruby-core:46021] [Feature #6679]

* parse.y (parser_initialize): set default parser encoding as
  UTF-8 instead of US-ASCII.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@37485 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

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@@ -248,6 +248,8 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
 
   * Added %i and %I for symbol list creation (similar to %w and %W).
 
+  * Default source encoding is changed to UTF-8. (was US-ASCII)
+
 === Compatibility issues (excluding feature bug fixes)
 
   * Signal.trap