From: Dreamcat Four Date: 2010-07-22T03:41:56+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:31420] [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. And lets face it, if Encoding::BINARY were its own seperate encoding that shouldnt really hurt anybody. Given the definition of what binary data is. If a ruby programmer wants to continue using 8-Bit Ascii strings that shouldn't get broken. Looking at it from that (my) perspective theres not really much of an obvious downside. You should only ever display a BINARY encoded string with String#force_encoding() IMHO. ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3595 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org