From: "duerst (Martin Dürst)" Date: 2012-07-27T10:21:41+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:46795] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6799] Digest::*.hexdigest returns an ASCII-8BIT String Issue #6799 has been updated by duerst (Martin D��rst). So what should it return? [If you create a bug, saying what the expected behavior is (and also why you expect it) is quite important.] ---------------------------------------- Bug #6799: Digest::*.hexdigest returns an ASCII-8BIT String https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6799#change-28465 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/