From: Martin Duerst <duerst@...>
Date: 2008-12-19T17:18:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20691] Re: 1.9 character encoding (was:  encoding of symbols)

At 11:09 08/12/18, danielcavanagh@aanet.com.au wrote:

>>> we first add a function
>>> to do actual conversions between two encodings based on character, not
>>> just reinterpreting the byte values. so c in latin-1 (0x63) would become
>>> c
>>> in utf-32 (0x00000063).
>>
>> String#encode does this I believe
>
>this was just an example. what about if a string had the japanese
>character ka in shift jis and was being converted to utf-8. the value
>would be entirely different and encode() is not capable of doing this, is
>it?

Have you ever tried? It's perfectly capable to do this!
Why did you think it's not?

Regards,    Martin.


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