From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-08-26T04:14:17+09:00
Subject: Re: String#length not working properly in Ruby 1.9

On 8/25/07, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> |If I do this, though:
> |
> |   s = File.readlines("foo")
> |
> |How do I tell Ruby what the encoding of the string is? s.encoding =
> |'utf-8'? s.encoding = 'raw'?
> I need to add optional argument for those methods to specify encoding
> for reading files.

So, can a string's encoding be changed once it's initially set, or
will it be set only by specifying the encoding on read or write?

-austin
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