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sasha:rubinius brian$ irb
1.9.3p286 :001 > "abc".force_encoding('ascii-8bit') + "\xff".force_encoding('us-ascii')
=> "abc\xFF"
1.9.3p286 :002 > a = "\x12:\xFF\xB6\xB3\x8D\xB8\x03".force_encoding('ascii-8bit')
=> "\x12:\xFF\xB6\xB3\x8D\xB8\x03"
1.9.3p286 :003 > b = "\x98~<\x84\xC3F|X".force_encoding 'us-ascii'
=> "\x98~<\x84\xC3F|X"
1.9.3p286 :004 > a + b
Encoding::CompatibilityError: incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and US-ASCII
from (irb):4
from /Users/brian/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/bin/irb:16:in `<main>'
1.9.3p286 :005 >
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