From: Michael Selig <michael.selig@...>
Date: 2008-10-13T07:08:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19306] Re: [Feature #639] New String#encode_internal method

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:59:49 +1100, Yukihiro Matsumoto  
<matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

> I'd rather propose, default_internal to be the default target encoding
> of the String#encode method, so that
>
>   str.encode
>
> to be equivalent to
>
>   str.encode(default_internal)
>
> with the optimization tricks you've suggested.
>

Yes, that is very neat.

Cheers
Mike