[MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #737: Unpack inconsistencies (possibly related to issue #605?)

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#737: Unpack inconsistencies (possibly related to issue #605?)
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 Reporter:  babs.devs@…          |       Owner:  lsansonetti@…        
     Type:  defect               |      Status:  new                  
 Priority:  major                |   Milestone:                       
Component:  MacRuby              |    Keywords:  Grit, unpack         
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Comment(by babs.devs@…):

 Replying to [comment:2 macruby@…]:
 > This might be down to the encodings, what encoding do you get the
 constant and packed string? The packed string I believe will be using the
 BINARY or ASCII-8BIT encoding, in order to compare the two strings you
 might need to use :force_encoding on the constant, provided its a Ruby
 string and not an NSString.


 Yep. The Constant was encoded as UTF-8 and the packed string was ASCII-
 8BIT. This alleviated the problem:
 {{{
 PACK_IDX_SIGNATURE.force_encoding(Encoding::ASCII_8BIT)
 }}}

 From what I've read, the encoding in Ruby 1.9 was the culprit here. Is
 this a common issue? :force_encoding seems a bit hackish, is there a "best
 practice" way to ensure consistent encoding in Ruby?

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Ticket URL: <http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/737#comment:3>
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