From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2008-02-07T11:43:38+09:00
Subject: Re: STDIN encoding differs from default source file encoding


On Feb 6, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> In addition, you will get  #<Encoding:US-ASCII> when you type
> __ENCODING__ but it is intended.  Remember IRB does parse line by
> line.


Does that apply to strings containing characters > 127?

irb(main):003:0> "\0x81"
=> "\x00x81"
irb(main):004:0> "\0x81".encoding
=> #<Encoding:US-ASCII>
irb(main):005:0>

Should that be ASCII-8BIT? And is it a readline restriction that I  
can't type a utf-8 character into irb?


Dave