From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-09-17T11:55:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:18644] Re: Reading non-ascii compatible files

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:18637] Reading non-ascii compatible files"
    on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:27:25 +0900, "Michael Selig" <michael.selig@fs.com.au> writes:

|The weird thing is that I can open it for writing without "b".

Really?  It checks for me:

ruby -v -I .ext/i686-linux -E UTF-16LE -e "File.open('/tmp/xx', mode: 'w')"         
ruby 1.9.0 (2008-09-16 revision 19380) [i686-linux]
-e:1:in `initialize': ASCII incompatible encoding needs binmode (ArgumentError)
	from -e:1:in `open'
	from -e:1:in `<main>'

But File.open(path, "w") does not check.  This is a bug.

|Worse is that some methods which don't take a "mode" parameter don't work  
|at all:
|
|ruby -v -E UTF-16BE -e "IO.readlines('/tmp/xx')"
|ruby 1.9.0 (2008-09-16 revision 19371) [i686-linux]
|-e:1:in `readlines': ASCII incompatible encoding needs binmode  (ArgumentError)
|	from -e:1:in `<main>'
|
|Why is this? Bug?

You can specify mode by keyword argument:

ruby -v -E UTF-16BE -e "IO.readlines('/tmp/xx', mode: "rb")"

							matz.