Ruby magic comment doesn't work?

Hey, I'm trying to write hebrew strings on my application. I added

# coding: UTF-8

To my first line to change the encoding. When I l开发者_StackOverflow社区aunch my program I get an encoding error.

Edit - I believe the problem happens only on my computer. I might have done something wrong, It works very well on my laptop \ other computers. If anyone has any idea anyway it would be nice to know.

KCODE doesn't help either.

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Are there any blank lines at the beginning of the file? The first line must be a shebang, a coding statement, etc.

Oh, and like @fl00r said if you're not using 1.9.

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? I'm not quite sure but I ussualy use this for Cyrillic

$KCODE = 'u'
require 'jcode'

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change coding to encoding, I think

# encoding: utf-8

http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2008/04/fun-with-ruby-1.html