From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2009-02-04T09:33:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21817] Re: [Feature #908] Should be an easy way of reading 	N characters from am I/O stream

On 04/02/2009, Michael Selig <redmine@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

>
>  Re: seeking by character count - it would be nice, but I have no idea how it could be implemented efficiently!

For UTF-8/UTF-16/SJIS/EUC-JP/BIG5 .. no. UTF-32 is dword aligned but
you cannot tell what byte ordering it uses reliably. Bad thing. Seeks
are probably not for text files or only for text files you have parsed
already so you know where you are seeking.

Thanks

Michal