From: Michel Demazure <michel@...>
Date: 2010-05-01T17:20:50+09:00
Subject: Re: File.read(fname) vs. File.read(fname,File.size(fname))

Alex Dowad wrote:
> Thanks for your reply, Roger!
> 
>> I'm unable to reproduce this except on windows, so that's where you are, 
>> I assume?
> 
> Yes. Sorry, I'll make that clear next time I post.
> 
In my case, on Windows with 1.9.1 and an utf-8 file, the two commands 
are not equivalent.

Replacing File.read(file) by File.read(file, File.size(file)) raises 
encoding errors. They behave differently wrt encodings.
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