[#107867] Fwd: [ruby-cvs:91197] 8f59482f5d (master): add some tests for Unicode Version 14.0.0 — Martin J. Dürst <duerst@...>
To everybody taking care of continuous integration:
3 messages
2022/03/13
[#108090] [Ruby master Bug#18666] No rule to make target 'yaml/yaml.h', needed by 'api.o' — duerst <noreply@...>
Issue #18666 has been reported by duerst (Martin D端rst).
7 messages
2022/03/28
[#108117] [Ruby master Feature#18668] Merge `io-nonblock` gems into core — "Eregon (Benoit Daloze)" <noreply@...>
Issue #18668 has been reported by Eregon (Benoit Daloze).
22 messages
2022/03/30
[ruby-core:107943] [Ruby master Feature#18576] Rename `ASCII-8BIT` encoding to `BINARY`
From:
"matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)" <noreply@...>
Date:
2022-03-17 09:03:45 UTC
List:
ruby-core #107943
Issue #18576 has been updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto). The risk of compatibility has been reduced thanks to @byroot's effort, but probably there still are many applications potentially affected by the change. Considering the benefit (of being slightly more descriptive) and risk (of incompatibility), I don't think it pays. Matz. ---------------------------------------- Feature #18576: Rename `ASCII-8BIT` encoding to `BINARY` https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18576#change-96893 * Author: byroot (Jean Boussier) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal ---------------------------------------- ### Context I'm now used to it, but something that confused me for years was errors such as: ```ruby >> "f辿e" + "\xFF".b (irb):3:in `+': incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT (Encoding::CompatibilityError) ``` When you aren't that familiar with Ruby, it's really not evident that `ASCII-8BIT` basically means "no encoding" or "binary". And even when you know it, if you don't read carefully it's very easily confused with `US-ASCII`. The `Encoding::BINARY` alias is much more telling IMHO. ### Proposal Since `Encoding::ASCII_8BIT` has been aliased as `Encoding::BINARY` for years, I think renaming it to `BINARY` and then making asking `ASCII_8BIT` the alias would significantly improve usability without backward compatibility concerns. The only concern I could see would be the consistency with a handful of C API functions: - `rb_encoding *rb_ascii8bit_encoding(void)` - `int rb_ascii8bit_encindex(void)` - `VALUE rb_io_ascii8bit_binmode(VALUE io)` But that's for much more advanced users, so I don't think it's much of a concern. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: <mailto:ruby-core-request@ruby-lang.org?subject=unsubscribe> <http://lists.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/ruby-core>