Talk:Read entire file

Encoding selection

The task description mentions "encoding selection". What has encoding got to do with reading entire file? If you read a file into memory, you just read the file. Encoding is something to be considered when you are manipulating the data. I assume the "encoding" refers to text encoding. However, the file may be a picture file, or binary data or whatever. --PauliKL 16:09, 6 March 2013 (UTC)