From: "Eregon (Benoit Daloze)" Date: 2012-07-27T06:17:14+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:46792] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6799][Open] Digest::*.hexdigest returns an ASCII-8BIT String Issue #6799 has been reported by Eregon (Benoit Daloze). ---------------------------------------- Bug #6799: Digest::*.hexdigest returns an ASCII-8BIT String https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6799 Author: Eregon (Benoit Daloze) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: ext Target version: 2.0.0 ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0dev (2012-07-15 trunk 36395) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0] $ ruby -rdigest/sha1 -e 'p Digest::SHA1.hexdigest("a").encoding' # I'm happy to provide a patch. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/