From cde065c32c8db34eaf2c6b8646a2d4a34e20a3ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?David=20Rodr=C3=ADguez?= <deivid.rodriguez@riseup.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:36:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify documentation for encoding of `String.new` without
 arguments

[Bug #21025]
---
 doc/encodings.rdoc | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/doc/encodings.rdoc b/doc/encodings.rdoc
index 7ec097c51679fc..06b1f669a02476 100644
--- a/doc/encodings.rdoc
+++ b/doc/encodings.rdoc
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ see {Script Encoding}[rdoc-ref:encodings.rdoc@Script+Encoding].
 
 The default encoding for a string created with method String.new is:
 
+- For no argument, ASCII-8BIT.
 - For a \String object argument, the encoding of that string.
 - For a string literal, the script encoding;
   see {Script Encoding}[rdoc-ref:encodings.rdoc@Script+Encoding].