Yes, looks like the same issue as ticket 742. I did look at tickets but failed to spot that.
The comment on the ticket re only UTF-8 being required may be true - it certainly is for me. Sadly the ruby-mysql gem works in such a way that the difference between MRI and macruby breaks it. Steve On 18 Sep 2011, at 06:07, Watson wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe related to http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/742. > MacRuby ignore magic-comment, and uses default encoding UTF8. > > Thanks. > > 2011/9/18 Steve Clarke <st...@sclarkes.me.uk>: >> Code >> ======== >> >> ABC='ABC' >> puts "ABC[0] encoding is #{ABC[0].encoding}" >> puts "?\\xff encoding is #{?\xff.encoding}" >> >> >> Output >> ======== >> >> >> MRI output >> >> ABC[0] encoding is US-ASCII >> ?\xff encoding is ASCII-8BIT >> >> >> >> macruby output >> >> ABC[0] encoding is UTF-8 >> ?\xff encoding is UTF-8 >> >> >> The encodings reported above did not seem to be effected by the encoding of >> the source file. I tried both ASCII and UTF-8. >> >> When the same code is executed in (mac)irb the results are the same for >> macirb as they are for macruby. >> irb for MRI however produces UTF-8 strings in both cases! This seemed very >> odd but I'm fairly sure it's because I have an environment variable: >> LANG=GB.UTF-8 >> When I changed to LANG=GB.US_ASCII irb for MRI rendered 'abc'[0] with >> US_ASCII encoding. macirb still used UTF-8. >> >> (I discovered this when trying to get ruby-mysql to work with macruby. It >> doesn't work as-is but seems to work with a few mods that use force_encoding >> to make MRI and macruby produce the same outputs). >> I abandoned my earlier attempts to use postgres with macruby via the pg gem. >> It failed regularly but in unpredictable ways associated, as far as I could >> tell, with memory management problems. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacRuby-devel mailing list >> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel >> > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
