From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2008-01-12T02:29:34+09:00
Subject: Re: nil encoding as synonym for binary encoding


On Jan 11, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Wolfgang N�dasi-Donner wrote:

> 1) The "characters" of a binary encoding are the bytes. so...
>   "cat".force_encoding("binary)[1] # => "a"
>   ...should work like this. Even split should work bytewise.

But how to you know it's ascii? It might be EBCDIC. Or, if the top bit  
is set, what encoding would you give the string? I think in this case  
it makes sense to return the integer byte value.


Dave