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Diffstat (limited to 'encoding.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | encoding.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/encoding.c b/encoding.c index e1441caec2..64748ceb27 100644 --- a/encoding.c +++ b/encoding.c @@ -1684,7 +1684,9 @@ rb_enc_default_external(void) * File data written to disk will be transcoded to the default external * encoding when written, if default_internal is not nil. * - * The default external encoding is initialized by the locale or -E option. + * The default external encoding is initialized by the -E option. + * If -E isn't set, it is initialized to UTF-8 on Windows and the locale on + * other operating systems. */ static VALUE get_default_external(VALUE klass) |