--- !ditz.rubyforge.org,2008-03-06/issue 
title: allow writing single character values to buffer objects (e.g. buf[123] = 'x')
desc: |-
  Currently the string value will be coerced to a number which leads to
  quite unexpected behavior.  For instance, buf[123] = 'x' will assign 0x00
  to the buffer, and buf[123] = '9' will assign 0x09 (not 0x39) to the buffer.
type: :task
component: duk
release: v0.11
reporter: Sami Vaarala <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
status: :unstarted
disposition: 
creation_time: 2014-03-27 22:28:47.206755 Z
references: []

id: b557ffd92f8ffe1774a403e138a1237599be230d
log_events: 
- - 2014-03-27 22:28:47.342500 Z
  - Sami Vaarala <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - created
  - ""
- - 2014-05-07 21:02:24.611888 Z
  - Sami Vaarala <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - commented
  - |-
    Taking the byte value of the first byte of a string would actually work quite
    well.  Because strings are guaranteed to have NUL terminator, empty strings
    would cause a zero to be written which is reasonably intuitive.  For non-ASCII
    characters the first byte of the extended UTF-8 representation would be used:
    not great (better might be codepoint & 0xff) but probably good enough.