From: Florian Gross <florgro@...>
Date: 2007-09-02T05:03:07+09:00
Subject: Re: String#length not working properly in Ruby 1.9

On Aug 27, 4:52 am, Yukihiro Matsumoto <m...@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> |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
>
>   str.encode("utf-8")  # specify encoding without conversion
>
> to specify encoding.  If a string has encoding specified,
>
>   str.encode("utf-8")  # convert from str.encoding to utf-8

Hm, does this return a new string with the supplied encoding (non-
destructive behaviour) or does it change the encoding in-place? Just
wondering.