From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2011-02-09T07:12:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:35155] Re: [Ruby 1.9-Bug#4340] Encoding of result string for String#gsub is not consistent

Hi,

At Wed, 9 Feb 2011 04:41:14 +0900,
mathew wrote in [ruby-core:35154]:
>> Can I ask why regexps are not affected by
>> # encoding: UTF-8
>> declarations?
> 
> Nobody?
> 
> I still can't think of a reason, so what am I missing?

It does affect.

$ ruby -e '#encoding:utf-8' -e 'p /\u3042/.encoding'
#<Encoding:UTF-8>
$ ruby -e '#encoding:cp932' -e 'p /\x81\x42/.encoding'
#<Encoding:Windows-31J>
$ ruby -e '#encoding:euc-jp' -e 'p /\xa1\xa2/.encoding'
#<Encoding:EUC-JP>

-- 
Nobu Nakada