From: Brian Candler Date: 2009-08-06T23:23:38+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:24793] [Feature #1900] Suggestion: Encoding#ascii_compatible? Feature #1900: Suggestion: Encoding#ascii_compatible? http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1900 Author: Brian Candler Status: Open, Priority: Low An important property of an Encoding is whether it is ASCII-compatible. However as far as I can see, you can only test for this indirectly, e.g. Encoding.compatible?("a".force_encoding("ISO-8859-1"), "a".force_encoding("US-ASCII")) So I suggest exposing rb_enc_asciicompat as a property of the Encoding objects themselves. ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org