[#29911] [Bug #3231] Digest Does Not Build — Charlie Savage <redmine@...>

Bug #3231: Digest Does Not Build

19 messages 2010/05/01

[#29920] [Feature #3232] Loops (while/until) should return last statement value if any, like if/unless — Benoit Daloze <redmine@...>

Feature #3232: Loops (while/until) should return last statement value if any, like if/unless

9 messages 2010/05/01

[#29997] years in Time.utc — Xavier Noria <fxn@...>

Does anyone have a precise statement about the years supported by

13 messages 2010/05/04

[#30010] [Bug #3248] extension 'tk' is finding tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh incorrectly — Luis Lavena <redmine@...>

Bug #3248: extension 'tk' is finding tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh incorrectly

9 messages 2010/05/05

[#30226] [Bug #3288] Segmentation fault - activesupport-3.0.0.beta3/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:88 — Szymon Jeż <redmine@...>

Bug #3288: Segmentation fault - activesupport-3.0.0.beta3/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:88

10 messages 2010/05/13

[#30358] tk doesn't startup well in doze — Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@...>

Currently with 1.9.x and tk 8.5,the following occurs

12 messages 2010/05/22

[ruby-core:30103] Re: suggestion: switch default name for BINARY encoding

From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2010-05-08 14:36:33 UTC
List: ruby-core #30103
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.

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