From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2008-01-11T00:02:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Draft of some pages about encoding in Ruby 1.9


On Jan 10, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:

> Wouldn't you need "rb:ascii-8bit"? Or how would you stop the annoying
> line conversions?

Yes, you're right. Which seems somewhat error prone and onerous...

Maybe 'b' could mean the same as the current "rb:ascii-8bit" and  
something new, like "dos" or "cr", might mean convert line endings.



Dave