Issue #9294 has been updated by zzak (Zachary Scott). Category set to doc Status changed from Open to Assigned Assignee set to zzak (Zachary Scott) Thanks, I'll take a look when I get a chance. ---------------------------------------- Bug #9294: Documentation for IO#read claims resulting string is always ASCII-8BIT encoding https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9294#change-43882 Author: steenslag (siep korteling) Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: zzak (Zachary Scott) Category: doc 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/