From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2011-09-11T03:05:07+09:00
Subject: Re: how to write data in binary to a file?

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> irb(main):005:0> f2.write("groß")
> => 5
>
> Normally, transcoding a UTF-8 string (which contains non-ASCII
> characters) to ASCII-8BIT would raise an exception:

You obviously aren't aware what Extended ASCII (aka ASCII 8bit) is.

Take a look at ISO 8859-1, and check what 11011111 encodes.

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