From: Kless <jonas.esp@...>
Date: 2009-07-27T17:15:05+09:00
Subject: Raw bytes in 1.9

I want to stick raw bytes (0-255) into a variable.

This will work in Ruby 1.8 since that it always assumes that the
characters in strings are exactly bytes. But I'm not sure about Ruby
1.9 as it has per-string character encodings.