From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2011-12-13T00:14:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:41609] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #5714] Unexpected error of STDIN#read with non-ascii input on Windows XP

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:42 PM, U.Nakamura <usa@garbagecollect.jp> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In message "[ruby-core:41578] [ruby-trunk - Bug #5714] Unexpected error of STDIN#read with non-ascii input on Windows XP"
> � �on Dec.10,2011 06:49:55, <luislavena@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Category set to build
>
> build?
>

Sorry, meant to set core, but we don't have any category to describe
platform-specific issues.

>
>> Usa, what do you think about attached read_binmode.patch?
>
> Difficult, difficult...
>
> Of course, as Shirosaki-san says, IO#read with length should always
> be binary mode.
> But if setting binmode once, it's never canceled.
> So, I doubt that such implicit mode setting in IO#read is right.
>

Agree.

Hiroshi and Heesob, do you guys think can solve this without reverting
the changes of #5562?

If not, then reverting seems the only alternative.
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Luis Lavena
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