compile_file does not allow to pass a specific encoding

[mgreter]

To be clear, I'm talking about input encoding, output is always utf-8.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I couldn't figure out how to define a specific encoding for input files if they lack any bom or charset declaration. Therefore ruby sass will probably apply the default encoding, which would be CP850 in my case. But I know that the file in question is utf-8, so I would expect:

Sass.compile_file(filename, :encoding => "UTF-8")

Btw. I find it quite puzzeling that it also seems impossible in ruby to open a file in utf-8 encoding with the newline conversion disabled. We have some spec tests results that contain single \r chars, which get converted to \n by ruby io if newline conversion is on. But I'm using 1.9.3, so that may already be solved (saw a writebin function in the docs). I can work around those issues, but I figured I still post this here.

[mgreter]

OK, found out how to do it, since cli had an option for exactly this:

Encoding.default_external = "UTF-8"
Sass.compile_file(filename)

Not sure if it would be worth adding a default_encoding option for the file compiler though.

[chriseppstein]

That's an oversight. The encoding should be specifiable as an option. Ruby's file API allows a per-file-read specification of the encoding. Setting default_external globally is a workaround that works ok for things like the Sass executable, but should not be forced onto other processes.

[MareoRaft]

How can I find the most easy "Help Wanted" issues? I'm new but would like to contribute.

[nex3]

I'm moving this issue to the new Ruby Sass repository because it's specific to Ruby Sass's implementation. Once it's there, I'm going to close it as "on ice" because Ruby Sass is deprecated and no additional features are planned for it.