Alleviate the pain in working with utf8 templates by setting a default encoding.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/application/configuration.rb b/railties/lib/rails/application/configuration.rb
index d3e4742e8a..f9f47ef679 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/application/configuration.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/application/configuration.rb
@@ -6,21 +6,29 @@ module Rails
       include ::Rails::Configuration::Deprecated
 
       attr_accessor :allow_concurrency, :cache_classes, :cache_store,
-                    :secret_token, :consider_all_requests_local, :dependency_loading,
+                    :encoding, :consider_all_requests_local, :dependency_loading,
                     :filter_parameters,  :log_level, :logger, :metals,
                     :plugins, :preload_frameworks, :reload_engines, :reload_plugins,
-                    :serve_static_assets, :time_zone, :whiny_nils
+                    :secret_token, :serve_static_assets, :time_zone, :whiny_nils
 
       def initialize(*)
         super
-        @allow_concurrency   = false
-        @filter_parameters   = []
-        @dependency_loading  = true
+        @allow_concurrency = false
+        @consider_all_requests_local = false
+        @encoding = "utf-8"
+        @filter_parameters = []
+        @dependency_loading = true
         @serve_static_assets = true
-        @time_zone           = "UTC"
-        @consider_all_requests_local = true
         @session_store = :cookie_store
         @session_options = {}
+        @time_zone = "UTC"
+      end
+
+      def encoding=(value)
+        @encoding = value
+        if defined?(Encoding) && Encoding.respond_to?(:default_external=)
+          Encoding.default_external = value
+        end
       end
 
       def middleware