Issue #14863 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada).


The result encoding is determined by the encodings of the array's contents, and the locale is not related to it.
US-ASCII is the most "plain", so it is the fallback when the array has no contents.
I don't think that it is consistent enough.

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Bug #14863: Array#join with empty array returns empty string always in US-ASCII encoding
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14863#change-72613

* Author: xsimov (Xavier Sim)
* Status: Feedback
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 2.4.2
* Backport: 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN
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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.





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