From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-08-13T04:53:58+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.9 String and M17N documentation

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Brian Candler<b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:

> Maybe some bandaids would be accepted (e.g. ASCII-8BIT is compatible
> with everything and forces the result to ASCII-8BIT), but I'm hesitant
> to propose enlarging the ruleset further.

I think this is a good change that would at least cause mistakes to
fail faster.

I also suggested a simple binary string syntax on ruby-core, allowing:

%b{GIF} to be shorthand for "GIF".force_encoding("BINARY")

(Though that's admittedly more cosmetic than functionally significant)

A U-Turn is very unlikely to happen, but I imagine Matz will be
receptive for polishing things around the edges.