From: Adam Salter Date: 2009-10-31T06:21:18+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:26441] [Bug #2313] Incomplete encoding conversion? Issue #2313 has been updated by Adam Salter. Ok. I'm still a little unclear. The Ruby 1.9 docs say String#encode "returns a copy of str transcoded to encoding 'encoding'". From James Edward Grey article on strings String#force_encoding 'doesn't change the data at all, just the rules for interpreting that data'. So String#force_encoding is not a conversion/transcoding. Shouldn't you be able to String#encode any string as ASCII-8BIT? (If not is there somewhere I can read up more on this?) ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2313 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org