Issue #13124 has been reported by Benoit Daloze.

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Feature #13124: Should #puts convert to external encoding?
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13124

* Author: Benoit Daloze
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 2.5
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For instance:

    puts "?\x00\x42\x30".force_encoding(Encoding::UTF_16LE)
    ?B0

    puts "?\x00\x42\x30".force_encoding(Encoding::UTF_16LE).encode("utf-8")
    ?дв

The first result is surprising to me. It seems to treat the String as raw bytes and just "assume" they are displayable in the external encoding.

Should #puts re-encode the String to print in Encoding.default_external or the locale encoding?

    STDOUT.set_encoding(Encoding.find("locale"))

seems to do what I expect, but should that be the default?



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