From: Brian Ford <brixen@...>
Date: 2012-01-21T13:45:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:42202] [ruby-trunk - Bug #5920][Open] Encoding.compatible? gives inconsistent results with String vs Encoding arguments


Issue #5920 has been reported by Brian Ford.

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Bug #5920: Encoding.compatible? gives inconsistent results with String vs Encoding arguments
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5920

Author: Brian Ford
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30 revision 33570) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]


Is this a bug? If I pass two strings that have the same encodings as the Encoding instances I pass directly, I get different results.

$ irb
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :001 > Encoding.compatible?(Encoding::EUC_JP, Encoding::UTF_8)
 => nil 
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :002 > a = "abc".encode "euc-jp"
 => "abc" 
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :003 > a.encoding
 => #<Encoding:EUC-JP> 
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :004 > a.valid_encoding?
 => true 
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :005 > b = "def".encode "utf-8"
 => "def" 
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :006 > b.encoding
 => #<Encoding:UTF-8> 
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :007 > b.valid_encoding?
 => true 
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :008 > Encoding.compatible?(a, b)
 => #<Encoding:EUC-JP> 
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :009 > a << b
 => "abcdef" 
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :010 > a.encoding
 => #<Encoding:EUC-JP> 
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :011 > a.valid_encoding?
 => true 

If this is not a bug, could someone please explain the rationale behind the behavior.

Thanks,
Brian



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