[ruby-core:92843] [Ruby trunk Bug#15876] 1.to_s.encoding != Encoding.default_internal

Issue #15876 has been updated by shevegen (Robert A. Heiler).


> which is confusing/annoying especially to users that don't know
> how encodings work in ruby.

I personally finally switched into UTF-8 (oddly enough, primarily due to emoji and
unicode-symbols that can be used for simple indications both on the commandline and
www), but I think one problem (for me) was from ruby 1.8.x to later ruby versions
that there was not that much documentation available.

Judging from your comment encoding may still pose a problem for some ruby users (or
potentially new ruby users).

Some time ago, I think, jeremy evans wrote a document about symbols, which was added
(my apologies if I misremember). If anyone feels like writing some document about
encoding in ruby, and how to deal with it ... :) (could be in wiki-style or perhaps
gist-github or some other place; I am in no way suggesting that only a single 
person should do so, it could be a collaborative effort).

To the issue at hand, I just tested in irb:

    1.to_s.encoding  #should be the same as "".encoding # => #<Encoding:US-ASCII>
    "".encoding # => #<Encoding:UTF-8>

This is indeed a little surprising (to me). There may be valid reasons for this,
perhaps default external encoding, or something like this, but I can see why 
people may be confused about it. Actually what surprises me is that .to_s on
the number leads to US-ASCII encoding by default.

I think looking back when I used an ISO-encoding, the most surprising result I
had encountered was actually in regards to regexp-engine and encodings used
there. I do not remember exactly how I found it, but I think I reported it back
then; still not entirely sure how it came, but regexes may also be an area where
users may be a little bit confused - so documentation may be of some help.

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Bug #15876: 1.to_s.encoding != Encoding.default_internal
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15876#change-78224

* Author: grosser (Michael Grosser)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 2.6.3
* Backport: 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN
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I ran into strange looking test output when I compared .to_s with an expected text, saying that the encoding was different, which is confusing/annoying especially to users that don't know how encodings work in ruby.
1.to_s.encoding should be the same as "".encoding



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