Bug #912: Confusion over encoding returned by IO#read & IO.read

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

[mike (Michael Selig)]

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I find it confusing that IO#read & IO.read return an ASCII-8BIT string when a length is specified, but not when the entire file is read (no length specified).

Given that we have "binread" to read binary data, why not make "read(length)" work like gets("", length) so it consistently returns the encoding?
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[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

• Assignee set to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
• ruby -v set to 1.9.1

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[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

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It is intended.

IO#read(bytesize) / IO.read(bytesize) is binary method.
So its argument is bytesize and it specify ASCII-8BIT.

If you want a read character method, Feature #908 is related ticket.
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