From: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@...>
Date: 2013-02-01T20:23:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:51790] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #7752] Rational/Float/Fixnum/Bignum `.to_s.encoding` is US-ASCII

On 2013/01/31 18:07, coffeejunk (Maximilian Haack) wrote:
>
> Issue #7752 has been updated by coffeejunk (Maximilian Haack).
>
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> The only problem I see is that ruby is lying to the user.

There is 0% lying if one claims that an ASCII-only string is US-ASCII. 
There is also 0% lying if one claims it's UTF-8.

> It is not severe since, as you said, there are no non-ascii characters in the resulting string, but I think ruby should respect the set encoding.

Setting Encoding.default_internal (or something else) is not a guarantee 
that all Strings will be in that encoding. Otherwise, it wouldn't be 
called "default".

Regards,    Martin.

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> Bug #7752: Rational/Float/Fixnum/Bignum `.to_s.encoding` is US-ASCII
> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7752#change-35742