# File lib/rexml/encodings/US-ASCII.rb, line 4
def encode_ascii content
array_utf8 = content.unpack('U*')
array_enc = []
array_utf8.each do |num|
if num <= 0x7F
array_enc << num
else
# Numeric entity (&#nnnn;); shard by Stefan Scholl
array_enc.concat "&\##{num};".unpack('C*')
end
end
array_enc.pack('C*')
end