# encoding: utf-8 describe :string_length, shared: true do it "returns the length of self" do "".send(@method).should == 0 "\x00".send(@method).should == 1 "one".send(@method).should == 3 "two".send(@method).should == 3 "three".send(@method).should == 5 "four".send(@method).should == 4 end it "returns the length of a string in different encodings" do utf8_str = 'こにちわ' * 100 utf8_str.size.should == 400 utf8_str.encode(Encoding::UTF_32BE).size.should == 400 utf8_str.encode(Encoding::SHIFT_JIS).size.should == 400 end it "returns the length of the new self after encoding is changed" do str = 'こにちわ' str.send(@method) str.force_encoding('BINARY').send(@method).should == 12 end end