From: "Radosław Bułat" Date: 2009-02-04T00:46:35+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:21805] Re: [Feature #908] Should be an easy way of reading N characters from am I/O stream I wonder also about byte-oriented IO#seek if someone want to have character-oriented seek. It looks like byte-oriented seekd is useless in multibyte character-oriented stream because it could jump to bad position (in the middle of character bytes). -- Pozdrawiam Rados�aw Bu�at http://radarek.jogger.pl - m�j blog