Hello,

In message "[ruby-core:41500] [ruby-trunk - Bug #5714] Unexpected error of STDIN#read with non-ascii input on Windows XP"
    on Dec.06,2011 15:57:36, <phasis / gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess this issue is due to a bug of _read function of Microsoft Runtime library.

agree. (To say strictly, Win32 API has a bug and MSVC runtime is not
coping with it.)


> Here is a patch for workaround.

This patch may cause newline code problem.


On my idea, for example, throw away XP :)


Regards,
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U.Nakamura <usa / garbagecollect.jp>