Hi,

In message "Re: Draft of some pages about encoding in Ruby 1.9"
    on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:26:20 +0900, Dave Thomas <dave / pragprog.com> writes:

|I'm wondering how a user (like me) knows what encodings and aliases  
|are available. For example, how would I discover Ruby supports  
|iso-8859-3 or ascii?

I see.  But if you really want to get the information from program,
you need to load all of encoding support libraries, that may have huge
memory impact.  I am not sure if it's good.

							matz.