From: Yui NARUSE Date: 2010-07-22T11:52:02+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:31430] [Feature #3595] Theres no encoding to differentiate a stream of Binary data from an 8-Bit ASCII string Issue #3595 has been updated by Yui NARUSE. Bill explains the reason. Please show your use case. I can't understand what troubles you. ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3595 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org