Issue #19191 has been updated by YO4 (Yoshinao Muramatsu). Not sure if this is appropriate for this topic, Consider the case where UTF-16 reading from the console will be supported in the future. For explicit encoding ``` p [STDIN.external_encoding, STDIN.internal_encoding] => ["UTF-16LE", "UTF-8"]. ``` For implicit encoding ``` p [STDIN.external_encoding, STDIN.internal_encoding] => ["UTF-8", nil]. ``` And I think the console output implicitly uses UTF-16LE as device encoding. ---------------------------------------- Feature #19191: Implicit console input transcoding is more desirable https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19191#change-100724 * Author: YO4 (Yoshinao Muramatsu) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal ---------------------------------------- In response to Bug #18353, STDIN.internal_encoding are set and encoding is converted explcitly on Windows platform. For example, ```[STDIN.external_encoding, STDIN.internal_encoding] # => [Encoding::Windows-31J, Encoding::UTF-8]``` if STDIN is console. I feel that internal_encoding should be reserved for specific applications. And I think setting internal_encoding to STDIN is not foreseened. Today I found irb breaks STDIN encoding, like ```
ruby -rirb -e "p [$stdin.external_encoding, $stdin.internal_encoding]; IRB.setup(''); IRB::Irb.new(); p [$stdin.external_encoding, $stdin.internal_encoding]" [#<Encoding:Windows-31J>, #<Encoding:UTF-8>] [#<Encoding:UTF-8>, nil]
We know input has console code page encoding. So we always can convert encoding from console code page to io_input_encoding().
### proposal
when reading from console on Windows, input encoding is enfoced to console code page and encoding conversion is implicitly applied.
when ```set_encoding("UTF-8")``` implicitly converts console code page to UTF-8.
when ```set_encoding("CP437", "UTF-8")``` implicitly converts console code page to UTF-8. external_encoding is ignored.
binmode or binary input method is not affected by these specifications.
set_encoding, etc. will continue to work as before, and this specification will affect only when encoding conversion on read (NEED_READCONV() and make_readconv()).
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