Issue #20418 has been updated by byroot (Jean Boussier). Seems legit to me. Proposed patch: https://github.com/ruby/stringio/pull/95 ---------------------------------------- Bug #20418: `StringIO#read(..., buffer)` doesn't preserve buffer's encoding https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20418#change-107883 * Author: andrykonchin (Andrew Konchin) * Status: Open * ruby -v: 3.2.2 * Backport: 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- IO#read (and similar methods `#read_nonblock`, `#readpartial`, `#sysread`) when called with a `buffer` argument preserve its encoding. But `StringIO#read` doesn't do so: ```ruby file = File.open('test.rb') buffer = "".encode(Encoding::ISO_8859_1) file.read(10, buffer) buffer.encoding # => #<Encoding:ISO-8859-1> ``` ```ruby require 'stringio' io = StringIO.new("# encoding") buffer = "".encode(Encoding::ISO_8859_1) io.read(10, buffer) buffer.encoding # => #<Encoding:ASCII-8BIT> ``` I would expect StringIO's read and similar methods to preserve a buffer's encoding. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/