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I stopped program with pry, then I type 

[1] pry(Module1::Class1)> Encoding.default_external => #<Encoding:Windows-1252>

In another mac, default value of Encoding.default_external is UTF-8. I changed locale variables to UTF-8, and encoding in irb works fine, but not in project stopped. With byebug is the same.

System is macOSX, ruby 2.3.3 through rbenv.

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  • closed due to wrong investigation. Commented Mar 14, 2018 at 8:09

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You can use the LANG env variable to influence the default external encoding:

ruby-2.3.4 Desktop$ LANG=en_US.US-ASCII irb 2.3.4 :001 > Encoding.default_external => #<Encoding:US-ASCII> ruby-2.3.4 Desktop$ LANG=de_CH.UTF-8 irb 2.3.4 :001 > Encoding.default_external => #<Encoding:UTF-8>

it is also possible to override it with the -E options:

ruby-2.3.4 Desktop$ LANG=en_US.US-ASCII irb -E utf-8 2.3.4 :001 > Encoding.default_external => #<Encoding:UTF-8>
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it works with irb, but not with project stopped with pry or byebug
How did you start this "project"? What is this "project"? Just ruby script, a Rails application? You need to make sure that the project is started with correct settings. Also: if you have CP1252 as default encoding? Where is it running, sounds like Windows?

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