Default to using the UTF-8 encoding when reading files.

Fixes #2029.
jekyll · Feb 11, 2014 · c58c5b8 · c58c5b8
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diff --git a/lib/jekyll/configuration.rb b/lib/jekyll/configuration.rb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ class Configuration < Hash
 
       'timezone'      => nil,           # use the local timezone
 
-      'encoding'      => nil,           # use the system encoding
+      'encoding'      => 'utf-8',       # always use utf-8 encoding. NEVER FORGET
 
       'safe'          => false,
       'detach'        => false,          # default to not detaching the server