From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2010-05-08T23:36:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:30103] Re: suggestion: switch default name for BINARY 	encoding

On 5/8/10, Benoit Daloze <eregontp@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 May 2010 00:50, Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Situation:
>>
>> Currently the encoding ASCII-8BIT "means" ascii and binary.
>>
>> There is also the BINARY encoding, which aliases ASCII-8BIT.
>>
>> Confusion is caused by the fact that by default, strings' encoding is
>> ASCII-8BIT, which actually means ASCII *and* BINARY.  Beginners have
>> no idea what ASCII-8BIT means.  But they do understand BINARY.
>>
>> Suggestion: use BINARY as the default encoding name with ASCII-8BIT as
>> the alias.  Then the default encoding is BINARY (which people can
>> understand without as much difficulty).
>>
> I agree, this would be more expected than ASCII-8BIT.

BINARY is the name in common use for this concept. I think it should
be the primary name used by ruby as well.