From: Hiroshi Nakamura Date: 2011-06-26T23:21:50+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:37526] [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #4097] Unexpected result of STDIN.read on Windows Issue #4097 has been updated by Hiroshi Nakamura. Target version changed from 1.9.x to 1.9.3 ---------------------------------------- Bug #4097: Unexpected result of STDIN.read on Windows http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4097 Author: Heesob Park Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: Masaya Tarui Category: core Target version: 1.9.3 ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3dev (2010-11-28 trunk 29965) [i386-mswin32_90] =begin On Ruby 1.9.x, in case of non-ASCII input, STDIN.read(n) returns some garbage attached string. C:\work>ruby -ve 'a=STDIN.read(10);p a;p a.length' ruby 1.9.3dev (2010-11-28 trunk 29965) [i386-mswin32_90] ������������abcd "\xB0\xA1\xB3\xAA\xB4\xD9\xB6\xF3ab\x00\x00\xB8t" 14 On the other hand, Ruby 1.8.6 works fine. C:\work>ruby -ve 'a=STDIN.read(10);p a;p a.length' ruby 1.8.6 (2010-02-04 patchlevel 398) [i386-mingw32] ������������abcd "\260\241\263\252\264\331\266\363ab" 10 =end -- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org