The templating is definitely an effort to keep the maintainability in check. It's also because we're planning on keeping a grammar around to generate test cases for us with fuzzing/other algorithms.
The encodings is a bit historical, to my knowledge Ruby is the only major language that was developed by someone whose language did not work with ASCII. So the first encodings written in Ruby were the old Windows pages.
The encodings is a bit historical, to my knowledge Ruby is the only major language that was developed by someone whose language did not work with ASCII. So the first encodings written in Ruby were the old Windows pages.