From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-12-16T02:31:50+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9.1: Encoding trouble: broken US-ASCII String

Hi,

In message "Re: ruby 1.9.1: Encoding trouble: broken US-ASCII String"
    on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:16:55 +0900, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> writes:

|It seems to go against DRY to have to write "r:binary" or "rb:binary" 
|when opening lots of binary files. But if I remember to use 
|#!/usr/bin/ruby -Knw everywhere that should be OK.
|
|However, I also don't like the unstated assumption that all Strings 
|contain text.

open(path, "rb") is your friend.  It sets encoding to binary.


|In RFC2045 (MIME), there is a distinction made between 7bit text, 8bit 
|text, and binary data.
|
|But if you label a string as "binary", Ruby changes this to 
|"ASCII-8BIT". I think that is a misrepresentation of that data, if it is 
|not actually ASCII-based text. I would much rather it made no assertion 
|about the content than a wrong assertion.
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