Hi, At Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:12:16 +0900, Vit Ondruch wrote in [ruby-core:25452]: > In following example, just characters from US-ASCII are used > and in this case the addition works well. > > s = 'abc' > a = s.encode 'cp1250' > b = s.encode 'utf-8' > c = a + b Because no conversion is needed. -- Nobu Nakada