From: Yui NARUSE Date: 2010-03-26T02:30:47+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:29001] [Bug #912](Rejected) Confusion over encoding returned by IO#read & IO.read Issue #912 has been updated by Yui NARUSE. Status changed from Open to Rejected 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. ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/912 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org