This was a known issue a while back, it's the reason the Zlib library didn't work well with binary files. I'm fairly certain there was work being done on making String be backed by a byte array... and in fact I thought this was already done.
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Oleg Tkachenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stumbled on this when testing yaml. > > > > >>> "\204" > > => "?" > > > > While > > > > irb(main):005:0>"\204" > > => "\204" > > > > I believe Ruby string can hold arbitrary byte values, but as we are storing > content as a string we are obviously losing all values that cannot be > represented in default encoding. Tomas, what do you think? > > > > -- > > Oleg > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > -- Michael Letterle [Polymath Prokrammer] http://blog.prokrams.com
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