From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2010-05-22T10:38:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Internal string storage and Encoding::Converter#convpath

2010/5/22 Patrick Thomson <pthomson@apple.com>:
>
> In #rubyspec we were discussing whether the specifications are correct for Encoding::Converter's convpath method. Since MRI uses UTF-8 internally, the #convpath method shows that it converts to UTF-8 for an intermediate step:

UTF-8 is not required:

% ruby -e 'p Encoding::Converter.new("euc-jp", "shift_jis").convpath'
[[#<Encoding:EUC-JP>, #<Encoding:Shift_JIS>]]
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Tanaka Akira