From: Victor 'Zverok' Shepelev <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2008-08-21T00:18:55+09:00
Subject: 1.9, C extension vs encoding

Hello all.

Ruby 1.9.
When I create some strings with Russian letters in C extensions, they have 

str.encoding #=> #<Encoding:ASCII-8BIT>

while being created in Ruby, they have proper UTF-8. Where is I'm idiot?

Thanks. 

V.