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[Greg Ewing]

On 9/05/22 7:47 am, Marco Sulla wrote:
>> It will fail if the contents is not ASCII.
> 
> Why?

For some encodings, if you seek to an arbitrary byte position and
then read, it may *appear* to succeed but give you complete gibberish.

Your method might work for a certain subset of encodings (those that
are self-synchronising) but it won't work for arbitrary encodings.

Given that limitation, I don't think it's reliable enough to include
in the standard library.

-- 
Greg