From: Dreamcat Four Date: 2010-07-22T01:34:52+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:31414] [Feature #3595] Theres no encoding to differentiate a stream of Binary data from an 8-Bit ASCII string Issue #3595 has been updated by Dreamcat Four. Sorry but I asked for an encoding for BINARY data. Not 'octets'. Not 'ascii-anything'. You seem to have misunderstood. 01101110110 ? 11011110 ? Think about it, the correct encoding BINARY should always only ever be a numerical one. Which isnt represented anywhere in Encodings.list ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3595 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org