From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2008-03-31T12:06:37+09:00
Subject: Re: String#dump vs String#inspect

Hi,

Daniel Berger wrote:
> I looked at the implementations for String#dump and String#inspect and 
> they are very similar (in 1.8.6 at least). In fact, I can't find a 
> difference between them. Does anyone have a case where they aren't the 
> same?

Cases when that string contains Japanese characters.  For 
String#inspect, these characters are printed as is.  While for 
String#dump, they are escaped using backslashes.  In 1.9 situations 
might differ for future, as 1.9 strings have their own encodings.