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This seem to have existed for a while and isn't due to encoding refactor. 01:24 c: 2017.04 with '/tmp/foo999'.IO { .spurt: Buf.new: 200; dd .open.slurp } 01:24 committable6 Zoffix, ¦2017.04: «""» 01:24 Zoffix m: with '/tmp/foo999'.IO { .spurt: Buf.new: 200; dd .open.slurp } 01:24 camelia rakudo-moar 094e77: OUTPUT: «""» Note that for file with two of such chars, the behaviour is what I'd expect it to be: throwing malformed UTF8 error, same as you get when decoding Buf.new(200): 01:27 m: with '/tmp/foo999'.IO { .spurt: Buf.new: 200, 200; dd .open.slurp } 01:27 camelia rakudo-moar 094e77: OUTPUT: «Malformed UTF-8 in block <unit> at <tmp> line 1» 01:25 m: Buf.new(200).decode 01:25 camelia rakudo-moar 094e77: OUTPUT: «Malformed termination of UTF-8 string in block <unit> at <tmp> line 1»