This fixes a huge number of hard-to-detect runtime bugs
that occur when a default utf-8 string from one of these
libraries is passed into a method expecting ascii-8bit
[#46491831]
Comments at the start of the file with ## caused YARD to think the
comment was documenting the require call. By removing the ##, the
warning disappeared. I did not determine what is special about ## in
file comments.
Brent Cook