From c58c5b87827716b9b8c2a9765bed245cc687a812 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Parker Moore <parkrmoore@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:48:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Default to using the UTF-8 encoding when reading files.

Fixes #2029.
---
 lib/jekyll/configuration.rb | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/jekyll/configuration.rb b/lib/jekyll/configuration.rb
index 9566a295..0ec0c5da 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/configuration.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/configuration.rb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ module Jekyll
 
       '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