From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2011-11-28T13:11:20+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:41349] Re: Wrong encoding of Symbol Hi, In message "Re: [ruby-core:41344] Re: Wrong encoding of Symbol" on Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:45:01 +0900, Nobuyoshi Nakada writes: |What's wrong? I think now I understand his concern: a = :foo p a.encoding # => # (a) b = "foo" p b.encoding # => # (b) c = "#{a}foo" p c.encoding # => # (c) d = "foo#{a}" p d.encoding # => # (d) (a) and (b), (c) and (d) are inconsistent. matz.