From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-12-12T11:14:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#pack and String#unpack documentation

Hi,

In message "Re: Array#pack and String#unpack documentation"
    on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:53:22 +0900, Gary Wright <gwtmp01@mac.com> writes:

|Yet the format string itself is assumed to be in ASCII, right?  To
|be more specific, the encoding of the format string has to be
|compatible with the encoding of the C source used to compile
|ruby (because of the switch() on literal characters in pack.c).

Yes.

|Is it safe to assume that the interpreter itself is compiled in an
|ASCII compatible encoding?

Yes.  Ruby will not handle ASCII incompatible encoding for scripts and
literals, unless someone will come up with drastic innovation I cannot
imagine right now.

							matz.