Bug #4380: Encoding of result string for String#gsub! is not consistent for BINARY

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: naruse (Yui NARUSE)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-02-07 trunk 30814) [x86_64-darwin10.6.0]

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

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When String#gsub! is called on a string in BINARY encoding the encoding may be changed to the replacement encoding.

Attached is a test patch.
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[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• File test_string.rb.gsub_bang_encoding.patch added

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[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• File deleted (test_string.rb.gsub_bang_encoding.patch)

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[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to naruse (Yui NARUSE)

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[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

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This issue was solved with changeset r30876.
Eric, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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• string.c (rb_enc_cr_str_buf_cat): remove special treatment of
  ASCII-8BIT receivers.

• string.c (str_gsub): set initial encoding of the buffer as the
  same of the receiver. [ruby-core:35141]
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