From: Adam Prescott <adam@...>
Date: 2011-09-09T20:37:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:39423] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #5287] 1.9.3 - Interpolation in a string causes the string's encoding to be set to ASCII-8BIT

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Adam Prescott <adam@aprescott.com> wrote:
> Since "#{a}" is actually a new string, doesn't it make sense that its
> encoding should be the default internal encoding? I can see "#{a}" being
> used with the encoding change actually expected.

I guess "no" is the answer?

What about "foo#{a}bar"? Would that have the same encoding result as
"#{a}", or is the latter just a special case? (Either choice seems
counterintuitive to me.)