From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-06-29T09:06:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

Hi,

In message "Re: Unicode roadmap?"
    on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:53:52 +0900, Izidor Jerebic <ij.rubylist@gmail.com> writes:

|Oh, really? So it is OK for this code to sometimes receive binary  
|String and sometimes String with encoding:
|io = SomeIO.open( .... )
|v = io.read( 1000 )

No, as I said before, reading with length specified shall always
return binary strings, since it counts in bytes, whereas gets,
readline etc. would return encoded strings.

							matz.