From: "Eregon (Benoit Daloze)" <redmine@...>
Date: 2012-08-01T22:45:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:46914] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6799] Digest::*.hexdigest returns an ASCII-8BIT String


Issue #6799 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze).


duerst (Martin D��rst) wrote:
> Given that the string has only ASCII characters, an encoding of US-ASCII indeed seems best. Benoit, unless somebody objects soon, I think you should go ahead with your patch.

Thank you, I just did.
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Bug #6799: Digest::*.hexdigest returns an ASCII-8BIT String
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6799#change-28580

Author: Eregon (Benoit Daloze)
Status: Closed
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Eregon (Benoit Daloze)
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'     
#<Encoding:ASCII-8BIT>

I'm happy to provide a patch.


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