Issue #9294 has been reported by steenslag (siep korteling). ---------------------------------------- Bug #9294: Documentation for IO#read claims resulting string is always ASCII-8BIT encoding https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9294 Author: steenslag (siep korteling) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: ruby -v: 2.0.0p247 Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN Documentation for IO#read claims resulting string is always ASCII-8BIT encoding. This is not true (anymore).(http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.0.0/IO.html#method-i-read) -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/