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  [ruby-dev:26324] XMLRPC charset

Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA suggested that the default charset of
xmlrpc library should be UTF-8.

In RFC3023, MIME and XML processors MUST assume that
the charset of text/xml with omitted charset parameter
is "us-ascii."  So strict server/client cannot use
non-ascii characters with this implementation.

  [ruby-dev:26367] Security problem with xmlrpc

Takahiro Kambe reported that he received a notification
of a security problem with xmlrpc:

        http://secunia.com/advisories/15767/

In Ruby CVS HEAD, lib/xmlrpc/utils.rb had one-liner fix
but it was not applied in 1.8 branch.
This mail had no reply, but 1.8 branch was fixed.

  [ruby-dev:26375] shebang without "ruby"

When Ruby executes a shebang script, Ruby interpreter checks shebang
line and if there are no string "ruby", she kick the program in
shebang line.

nobu nakada made a patch, because he guessed this function had
no necessity. He proposed a new behavior:

  * consider shebang without "ruby" as -x option without argument

Receiving the comment, Matz proposed another behavior:

  * consider shebang without "ruby" as just a comment (ignore options
    in the line)

Regards,