From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-11-20T15:06:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Encoding Confusion...

Hi,

In message "Re: Encoding Confusion..."
    on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:12:11 +0900, Wolfgang N�dasi-Donner <ed.odanow@wonado.de> writes:

|irb(main):001:0> "%2X" % "\C-\M-a".ord
|=> "81"
|
|It produces a 8 bit character. The same is true for...
|
|irb(main):002:0> "%2X" % "\M-\C-a".ord
|=> "81"
|
|..., which produces exactly the same. My confusion comes from
|the situation, that two Ruby programs which only one difference
|inside a String expression, generate two different encodings
|for the same resulting string.

We consider it a bug.  We try to fix it soon.

							matz.