Issue #14863 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada). xsimov (Xavier Sim) wrote: > My proposal to return the string in the locale encoding of the running ruby is so that the encoding returned by `#join` is consistent, since most of the times I see `#join` used it contains UTF-8 strings. You seem confusing the locale encoding and the source code encoding, but they are different things. The latter is UTF-8 by default now, but the former is not. What problems are you trying solve by this proposal? ---------------------------------------- Bug #14863: Array#join with empty array returns empty string always in US-ASCII encoding https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14863#change-72602 * Author: xsimov (Xavier Sim) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Target version: * ruby -v: 2.4.2 * Backport: 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- Calling ~~~ irb(main):001:0> [].join.encoding => #<Encoding:US-ASCII> ~~~ returns an empty string and that empty string is always in US-ASCII encoding. The expected result is that the returned empty string would be in UTF-8 since it seems to be the default for Ruby strings since 2.0. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: <mailto:ruby-core-request / ruby-lang.org?subject=unsubscribe> <http://lists.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/ruby-core>