From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-12-12T08:45:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20494] Re: encoding of symbols

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:20483] encoding of symbols"
    on Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:15:56 +0900, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> writes:

|#encoding: utf-8
|a = :cat
|b = :∂og
|
|I was surprised to see that a has US-ASCII encoding. Now that strings  
|and symbols are converging, shouldn't both a and b be encoded UTF-8,  
|so that symbols and strings behave the same way?

You are right about encoding of the symbols.  I will fix, unless there's
any reason I forget right now.

							matz.