[ruby-core:41348] Re: Wrong encoding of Symbol

Well Nobu, 

in my particular case rails I18n keys damaged, when written to redis backend.
And while here is no strict proof that problem is caused by situation we discussing, I was thinking that core team should be informed about ...

the fact that encoding of Symbol instances does not obey same rules as Strings is a bit counter-intuitive

the result of current situation is that behavior of the code dependent on the characters present in Symbol and position of that Symbol within interpolation expression 

o_O

With regards,
Andriy

P.S. In my rails app I just switched back to SQL storage, but really - code dependent on the characters within a Symbol feels messy? Which is the reason I've decided to notify core team about the issue. 

What is hard to understand and remember is often misunderstood and forgotten. 






On Nov 28, 2011, at 3:45 AM, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> (11/11/28 2:46), Andriy Tyurnikov wrote:
>> By default Symbols are encoded as US-ASCII,
> 
> Yes, if it consists from ASCII 7bit characters only.
> 
>> Strings by default are encoded with UTF-8
> 
> No, it's not by default.
> You explicitly set the source encoding.
> 
>> Which leads to enforcing of US-ASCII when concatenation is performed (when Symbol is a first member of concatenation/interpolation expression).
> 
> What's wrong?
> 
> -- 
> Nobu Nakada
>