From: Tom Link <micathom@...>
Date: 2008-12-16T00:07:34+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9.1: Encoding trouble: broken US-ASCII String

> There's a lot going on here, so it's a lot to take in.  In places, the  
> behavior is a little complex.  However, the core team has put a lot of  
> effort into making the system easier to use.  It's getting there.

It would have been nice though if the defaults had been chosen so that
they don't break 1.8 scripts -- or use some 8bit clean encoding if the
data contains 8bit wide characters instead of throwing an error.