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Bug #16842

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`inspect` prints the UTF-8 character U+0085 (NEXT LINE) verbatim even though it is not printable

Added by sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada) almost 4 years ago. Updated over 1 year ago.

Status:
Closed
Target version:
-
ruby -v:
ruby 2.8.0dev (2020-05-09T13:24:57Z master 889b0fe46f) [x86_64-linux]
[ruby-core:98231]

Description

The UTF-8 character U+0085 (NEXT LINE) is not printable, but inspect prints the character verbatim (within double quotation):

0x85.chr(Encoding::UTF_8).match?(/\p{print}/) # => false
0x85.chr(Encoding::UTF_8).inspect
#=> "\"
\""

My understanding is that non-printable characters are not printed verbatim with inspect:

"\n".match?(/\p{print}/) # => false
"\n".inspect #=> "\"\\n\""

while printable characters are:

"a".match?(/\p{print}/) # => true
"a".inspect # => "\"a\""

I ran the following script, and found that U+0085 is the only character within the range U+0000 to U+FFFF that behaves like this.

def verbatim?(char)
  !char.inspect.start_with?(%r{\"\\[a-z]})
end

def printable?(char)
  char.match?(/\p{print}/)
end

(0x0000..0xffff).each do |i|
  begin
    char = i.chr(Encoding::UTF_8)
  rescue RangeError
    next
  end
  puts '%#x' % i unless verbatim?(char) == printable?(char)
end
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