From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2007-08-27T19:39:24+09:00
Subject: Re: String#length not working properly in Ruby 1.9

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:52:26 +0200, Yukihiro Matsumoto  
<matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: String#length not working properly in Ruby 1.9"
>     on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:14:17 +0900, "Austin Ziegler"  
> <halostatue@gmail.com> writes:
>
> |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?
>
> You can.  If a string is a binary (raw) string, you can

So "raw" means "US-ASCII", right?

Regards,

   Michael