[ruby-core:88738] [Ruby trunk Bug#15044] ENV encoding not UTF-8 by default

Issue #15044 has been updated by shevegen (Robert A. Heiler).


If I put this into a .rb file:

    puts 'secret'.encoding
    ENV['PASS'] = 'secret'
    puts ENV['PASS'].encoding

On my system I get these two Strings output:

    UTF-8
    ISO-8859-1

My environment is, aka my current locale, iso-8859-1,
so the results that I get seem correct. I can change
the UTF-8 default encoding if I use a shebang line
in the .rb file, which I normally do, so all my 
encodings are the same (ISO-8859-1; regexes used to
behave a bit oddly sometimes but I am not sure if that
has changed or not).

I think ENV behaves a litle bit differently upon an
assignment.

If I use a shebang line in a .rb file that includes the above unicode 
character (this weird L), then all string encodings in that .rb file
are also ISO-8859-1, so I am not sure if there is any bug at all. 
It may be more related to IRB perhaps? I skipped testing on IRB mostly
because .rb files have a "higher weight" than code put through IRB.

The documentation does not mention what happens with encodings when
these are assigned to an ENV key, though:

https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.5.1/ENV.html

Perhaps it has more to do with IRB, in which case it could be added
there:

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.5.1/libdoc/irb/rdoc/IRB.html

And of course it may be that there is indeed a bug. You can try to
test with a standalone .rb file though and, if necessary, with a
specific shebang comment.

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Bug #15044: ENV encoding not UTF-8 by default
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15044#change-73791

* Author: lowang (Przemyslaw Wroblewski)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: ruby 2.5.1p57 (2018-03-29 revision 63029) [x86_64-linux]
* Backport: 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN
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~~~
$ irb
2.5.1 :001 > 'secret'.encoding
 => #<Encoding:UTF-8>
2.5.1 :002 > ENV['PASS'] = 'secret'; ENV['PASS'].encoding
 => #<Encoding:US-ASCII>
2.5.1 :009 > ENV['PASS'] = 'Ł'
 => "\u0141"
2.5.1 :010 > ENV['PASS'].encoding
 => #<Encoding:ASCII-8BIT>
~~~
I would expect all encodings to be **UTF-8** at all times





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