Hi,

In message "Re: Unicode roadmap?"
    on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 06:52:14 +0900, "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue / gmail.com> writes:

|> Austin Ziegler wrote:
|> >   d1 = File.open("file.txt", "rb", encoding: :utf8) { |f| f.read }
|> Question:  Does the encoding parameter specify the encoding of the file,
|> or the encoding of the strings you get back (my guess is both).
|
|I would assume both, based on what I've seen from Matz.

I think so.

|> Another Question:  When you set the encoding, are you:
|>
|> (A) Just changing the encoding specifier without changing the
|> underlaying string.
|> (B) Re-encoding the string according to the new encoding specifier.
|
|> (B) seems to be implied by the attribute notation, but that seems a bit
|> dangerous in my mind.
|
|I personally consider it to be (A) because I believe that encoding is
|a lens. If you want (B) it should be s1.recode(:utf8). But #recode
|would not work on an encoding of "binary" (or "raw"); #recode would be
|similar to the Iconv steps you would use today.

str.encoding="ascii" would cause (A).

							matz.