From: Adam Prescott <adam@...>
Date: 2011-09-10T02:25:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:39432] Re: [Backport93 - Backport #5287] 1.9.3 - Interpolation in a string causes the string's encoding to be set to ASCII-8BIT

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Yui NARUSE <naruse@airemix.jp> wrote:
>> ��I guess "no" is the answer?
>
> default_internal doesn't effect on this situation.
> "#{a}" is considered as ` s = a.to_s
> So "no" is the answer, s's encoding depends a's encoding.
>
>> ��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.)
>
> "foo#{a}bar" is considered as ` s = "foo"; s.concat(a.to_s); s.concat("bar").
> So the resulted s's encoding depends "foo".

Helpful to know, thanks.