title: Issue with £ character on windows, mac and linux with a ruby script
body: <p>I have a team of 3 people working on a project. We are all using windows 7 for development and some of have ruby 1.8.7 and some 1.9.2. </p>
  
  <p>two fo us are exclusively using Aptana Studio, while one of us is using Eclipse. </p>
  
  <p>I keep having an issue with a .rb file that has the £ in it where a unicode character at the beginning of the file causes the ruby parser on my machine to give up on the file with an error. </p>
  
  <p>If I open the file in notepad++ I can change the encoding so it works on my machine, but then it doesn't work on the linux (RHEL) server. I can change the encoding (again) so it works on my dev machine and the server, but then it breaks on my Mac OS X again. </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas what's going on? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks
  Chris</p>