Hi, (11/11/28 2:46), Andriy Tyurnikov wrote: > By default Symbols are encoded as US-ASCII, Yes, if it consists from ASCII 7bit characters only. > Strings by default are encoded with UTF-8 No, it's not by default. You explicitly set the source encoding. > Which leads to enforcing of US-ASCII when concatenation is performed (when Symbol is a first member of concatenation/interpolation expression). What's wrong? -- Nobu Nakada