App should specify encoding: utf-8

[beret]

As soon as I use a UTF-8 character in the config file, earthquake refuses to start, giving this error:

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.1.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:234:in `load': /home/user/.earthquake/config:5: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) (SyntaxError)
/home/user/.earthquake/config:5: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
/home/user/.earthquake/config:5: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting '}'
    :more_char => '…'
                     ^

To solve this, all that's needed is to put # encoding: utf-8 as the second line of bin/earthquake, right below #!/usr/bin/env ruby.

[no6v]

You can specify your favorite encoding, that may be utf-8 though :), at the top of your configuration file like:

$ head -n1 ~/.earthquake/config
# coding: utf-8

works fine on my environment. Would you try this?

Thanks,

[beret]

That works fine here. Would it make sense to include that in the standard config, since it's a common encoding now?

[no6v]

$ head -n2 ~/.earthquake/config | hd
00000000  23 20 63 6f 64 69 6e 67  3a 20 69 73 6f 2d 38 38  |# coding: iso-88|
00000010  35 39 2d 31 0a 45 61 72  74 68 71 75 61 6b 65 2e  |59-1.Earthquake.|
00000020  63 6f 6e 66 69 67 5b 3a  70 72 6f 6d 70 74 5d 20  |config[:prompt] |
00000030  3d 20 27 e6 e7 e8 20 27  0a                       |= '... '.|
00000039
$ locale charmap
UTF-8
$ earthquake --no-logo
æçè> 

I guess the prompt was converted automatically from iso-8859-1 to UTF-8 (due to default_external). Encoding of config file can be specified as per user's choice if it can be converted to UTF-8. Right?