[ruby-dev:51068] [Ruby master Bug#12052] String#encode with xml option returns wrong result

Issue #12052 has been updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans).

Status changed from Assigned to Rejected

After an extensive session with gdb, I've determined that this isn't an issue with `String#encode`, and it isn't a bug.

`"<\0>\0".encode("utf-16le", "utf-16le", xml: :text)` returns the same string as `"&lt;\0&gt;\0".force_encoding("utf-16le")`.  I think that's the correct behavior for `String#encode`, since you are specifying the source and destination encodings match.

`"&lt;\0&gt;\0".force_encoding("utf-16le")` is the same string as `"\u6C26\u3B74\u2600\u7467;".encode("utf-16le")`. The 10 ASCII bytes are the same as the bytes for the 5 codepoints in UTF16-LE encoding.

String#inspect processes the string, and formats each of the non-ASCII codepoints using the `\u` syntax, and the final codepoint (59) as a regular ASCII character.

As an example:

```ruby
"<\0>\0".encode("utf-16le", "utf-16le", xml: :text) == "&lt;\0&gt;\0".force_encoding("utf-16le")
=> true

"&lt;\0&gt;\0".force_encoding("utf-16le").codepoints
=> [27686, 15220, 9728, 29799, 59]

"&lt;\0&gt;\0".force_encoding("utf-16le").codepoints.map{|x| x >= 128 ? '-u%X'%x : x.chr}.join
"-u6C26-u3B74-u2600-u7467;"
```



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Bug #12052: String#encode with xml option returns wrong result
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12052#change-92642

* Author: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: akr (Akira Tanaka)
* Backport: 2.0.0: REQUIRED, 2.1: REQUIRED, 2.2: REQUIRED, 2.3: REQUIRED
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`String#encode`をASCII非互換エンコーディングから同じエンコーディングへ、`xml:`オプション付きで呼ぶとおかしな結果を返します。
バイナリとして変換してしまっているようです。

```ruby
p "<\0>\0".encode("utf-16le", "utf-16le", xml: :text)
#=> "\u6C26\u3B74\u2600\u7467;"
```



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