From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-06-25T18:06:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:24030] Re: [Bug #1681] Integer#chr Should Infer 	Encoding of Given Codepoint

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:24001] Re: [Bug #1681] Integer#chr Should Infer 	Encoding of Given Codepoint"
    on Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:54:06 +0900, Run Paint Run Run <runrun@runpaint.org> writes:
|
|>> This seems needlessly verbose given that Ruby already knows
|>> that my source encoding is UTF-8.
|>
|> It's irrelevant to source encoding. �A possiblity would be
|> Encoding.default_internal?
|
|Indeed; my mistake. :-)

Source encoding may be different from default internal encoding.
Since codepoint _number_ does not contain any encoding information,
there's information loss.  I am not sure it is OK to use possibly
wrong encoding information (default internal), even as a default.

I'd like to hear opinion from others.

							matz.