From: Vincent Isambart <vincent.isambart@...>
Date: 2008-10-02T11:26:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19097] Re: Encodings::default_internal patch

Hi,

> The only problem I see with allowing default_internal to be unset is in
> libraries.
You can just prevent the code from setting more than once.

> What encoding should they expect in their parameters? Can they at
> least expect it to be ASCII-compatible?
Well I do not know if we will be able to set default_internal to a
non-ASCII-compatible encoding but I think most libraries do not need
to care about such encodings. The (probably very few) people who use
those encodings should not be astonished if a library does not work
with such an encoding.

Cheers,
Vincent