From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2008-12-19T11:09:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20677] Re: 1.9 character encoding (was: encoding of      symbols)


From: <danielcavanagh@aanet.com.au>
>
> that doesn't read based on characters though. i meant read(1) would read
> one whole character, no matter the number of bytes.

What about reading streams such as network sockets?

And/or nonblocking reads?



Regards,

Bill