From: Adam Prescott <adam@...>
Date: 2011-09-21T00:26:51+09:00
Subject: Re: StringIO and encodings

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On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> wrote:

> StringIO.new has no knowledge of the file encoding at the
> location it's called from.
>

Can it not be changed so that it knows the internal encoding, instead? That
would stop you having to break the argument-less constructor or doing any
#dup'ing, no?

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