I prefer utf-8 as default. $LANG is locale name not encoding name.

On 9/18/13, Parker Moore <notifications@github.com> wrote:
>> @@ -99,6 +99,22 @@ class="flag">flags</code> (specified on the
>> command-line) that control them.
>>          <p><code class="option">timezone: TIMEZONE</code></p>
>>        </td>
>>      </tr>
>> +    <tr class='setting'>
>> +      <td>
>> +        <p class='name'><strong>Encoding</strong></p>
>> +        <p class="description">
>> +            Set the encoding of files by name. Only avaialble for Ruby
>> +            1.9 or later).
>> +			The default value is nil, which assumes default encoding,
>> +			<code>ASCII-8BIT</code>.
>
> I think the default value is `$LANG` on Unix then maybe defaults back to
> `ASCII-8BIT`
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