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Bug #13216

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Possible unexpected behaviour reading string starting with a byte order mark

Added by gabrielgiordano (Gabriel Giordano) about 7 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Assignee:
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Target version:
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ruby -v:
ruby 2.4.0p0 (2016-12-24 revision 57164) [x86_64-linux]
[ruby-core:79542]

Description

Maybe the comparison between symbols has an unexpected behaviour. Tested with ruby 2.4.0

$ echo -n -e '\xEF\xBB\xBFid' | ruby -e 'puts STDIN.read.bytes'
239
187
191
105
100

$ echo -n -e 'id' | ruby -e 'puts STDIN.read.bytes'
105
100

$ echo -n -e '\xEF\xBB\xBFid' | ruby -e 'puts STDIN.read.to_sym'
id

$ echo -n -e 'id' | ruby -e 'puts STDIN.read.to_sym'
id

$ echo -n -e '\xEF\xBB\xBFid' | ruby -e 'puts STDIN.read.to_sym == :id' 
false

$ echo -n -e 'id' | ruby -e 'puts STDIN.read.to_sym == :id'
true

$ echo -n -e '\xEF\xBB\xBFid' | ruby -e 'puts STDIN.read.bytes.pack("U")'
ï
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