[ruby-core:83429] [Ruby trunk Feature#13532][Closed] Enable :encoding key or open-uri (open()) similar as to how File.read() and File.readlines() already allow for

Issue #13532 has been updated by akr (Akira Tanaka).

Status changed from Assigned to Closed

:encoding option is implemented at r60232.

Note that encoding in mode string is already possible as open(filename, "r:enc").

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Feature #13532: Enable :encoding key or open-uri (open()) similar as to how File.read() and File.readlines() already allow for
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13532#change-67395

* Author: shevegen (Robert A. Heiler)
* Status: Closed
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: akr (Akira Tanaka)
* Target version: 
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Hello ruby core team and everyone else.

I lately had some odd behaviour and mixing of Encodings in my
scripts.

I had a better look and realized that open-uri would return
UTF-8 whereas my other scripts would use another encoding. So
far so good, no big deal, I can just change the encoding. But
I was not aware of this.

I then looked at the documentation and found it to be lacking:

  https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.4.1/libdoc/open-uri/rdoc/OpenURI.html

Compare this to File.readlines():

  https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.4.1/IO.html#method-c-readlines

File.readlines() also tells you how many arguments can be
passed.

(1) So my first suggestion is - could some kind soul please also
enable this for open-uri?

The major reason for me filing this feature request, is about
encoding support though, via open-uri.

File.open() and File.readlines() both allow an :encoding key
to be passed. This is very nifty, I use it a lot and it works
very well.

open-uri or rather its open() functionality, allows you to
pass in a Hash but this Hash has no :encoding key.

Example:

  open("http://www.ruby-lang.org/", encoding: 'ISO-8859-1') 

Error:

  ArgumentError: unrecognized option: encoding

Could this perhaps be added for symmetry and consistency,
so that open() from open-uri will behave like File.read()
and File.readlines() would? E. g. an example for the latter
would be.

    File.readlines('foobar.rb', :encoding => 'ISO-8859-1')

The very same syntax could also be used for open() of 
open-uri.

Thanks for reading!



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