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Bug #13655

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external encoding named "-" (doc issue or…?)

Added by shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe) about 8 years ago. Updated about 7 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Assignee:

stomar (Marcus Stollsteimer)

Target version:

ruby -v:

ruby 2.5.0dev (2017-06-09 trunk 59055) [x86_64-darwin15]

Backport:

2.2: REQUIRED, 2.3: DONE, 2.4: DONE

[ruby-core:81665]

Description

IO.new's document explicitly states that it accepts "-" as external encoding:

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/d0015e4ac6b812ea1681b1f5fa86fbab52a58960/io.c#L7790

which is not true.

% ruby -ve 'IO.new(0, external_encoding: "-")'
ruby 2.5.0dev (2017-06-09 trunk 59055) [x86_64-darwin15]
Traceback (most recent call last):
        2: from -e:1:in `<main>'
        1: from -e:1:in `new'
-e:1:in `initialize': unknown encoding name - - (ArgumentError)

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