From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: poffice@blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp Delivered-To: poffice@blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp Received: from kankan.nagaokaut.ac.jp (kankan.nagaokaut.ac.jp [133.44.2.24]) by blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C71E17C262B for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 05:35:22 +0900 (JST) Received: from funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp (funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp [133.44.2.201]) by kankan.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895F3EA6837 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 05:49:20 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost (localhost.nagaokaut.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id A415D8FC1F for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 05:49:20 +0900 (JST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp Received: from funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9JbBXolMsYUU for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 05:49:20 +0900 (JST) Received: from voscc.nagaokaut.ac.jp (voscc.nagaokaut.ac.jp [133.44.1.100]) by funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83FEC8FC1B for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 05:49:20 +0900 (JST) Received: from carbon.ruby-lang.org (carbon.ruby-lang.org [221.186.184.68]) by voscc.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 550B6952423 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 05:49:19 +0900 (JST) Received: from beryllium.ruby-lang.org (beryllium.ruby-lang.org [127.0.0.1]) by carbon.ruby-lang.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD0E13C21EBB4; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 05:49:15 +0900 (JST) Received: from mail-gx0-f178.google.com (mail-gx0-f178.google.com [209.85.161.178]) by carbon.ruby-lang.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD133C21EB8A for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 05:49:09 +0900 (JST) Received: by gxk8 with SMTP id 8so2038984gxk.37 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:49:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.11.19 with SMTP id 19mr3112782ybk.389.1311454148615; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:49:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.147.38.4 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:49:08 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 05:49:10 +0900 Posted: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:49:08 -0400 From: brabuhr@gmail.com Reply-To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org Subject: [ruby-core:38430] Re: Encoding documentation (Was: About 1.8.7 EOL) Sender: frank.cameron@gmail.com To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: X-ML-Name: ruby-core X-Mail-Count: 38430 X-MLServer: fml [fml 4.0.3 release (20011202/4.0.3)]; post only (only members can post) X-ML-Info: If you have a question, send e-mail with the body "help" (without quotes) to the address ruby-core-ctl@ruby-lang.org; help= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7-deb3 (2006-10-05) on carbon.ruby-lang.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=7.0 tests=ARIN,BAYES_50, CONTENT_TYPE_PRESENT,MIMEQENC,QENCPTR2 autolearn=disabled version=3.1.7-deb3 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=dXLU4H7t+GK05PXkNIIyXgSDI8UBkmma1myEAoxzAnw=; b=N+NfJ+WaQLk1nqnM2gXqYj34ocM2zEuth9q8jDJdb7Eo9svNOGaq3ClHSFJWhUPMMi tpMaoJFFAak0xYt5+i7wDo4Di/ciCAImstmOzjKrmxkZnSTmyoyfj6AHoQSlYhBcEEZc /1fwrAQB01sGcUVRHvEPzmT+ej9b6ssa9gkmY= X-Google-Sender-Auth: VYUT4ir2nq7TGE68wGCd4KKKe5Q Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-Id: ruby-core.ruby-lang.org List-Software: fml [fml 4.0.3 release (20011202/4.0.3)] List-Post: List-Owner: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Eric Hodel wrote: > On Jul 23, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Brian Candler wrote: >> As far as I know, ruby 1.9's Encoding system is *still* lacking any offi= cial documentation. I reversed-engineered and documented about 200 behaviou= rs, by which point it was abundantly clear to me that I cannot bear to use = it (and yet with 1.9 it cannot be avoided). Surely computing does not need = to be so difficult! > > If you point me to the documentation (and consent) I will merge it into R= uby. I think this is his documentation: https://github.com/candlerb/string19/blob/master/string19.rb Current copyright is "all rights reserved", but I hope he will consent to its use. :)