From: "naruse (Yui NARUSE)" Date: 2012-04-19T13:57:22+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:44446] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6322] Remove iconv Issue #6322 has been updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE). I'm neutral now. ---------------------------------------- Feature #6322: Remove iconv https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6322#change-25999 Author: drbrain (Eric Hodel) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: ext Target version: Currently when you require 'iconv' it reports a warning: $ ruby -v -r iconv -e 0 ruby 1.9.3p125 (2012-02-16 revision 34643) [x86_64-darwin11.3.0] [���]:in `require': iconv will be deprecated in the future, use String#encode instead. We should remove iconv since we have String#encode now. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/