From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-12-16T05:45:18+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9.1: Encoding trouble: broken US-ASCII String

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> open(path, "rb") is your friend.  It sets encoding to binary.

Thanks.

"rb" is now performing two jobs then - prevent line-ending translation 
(on those platforms which do it), and set encoding to binary. Something 
to remember.
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