From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-23T23:47:02+09:00
Subject: Re: IRB in latest CVS doesn't run


In message "IRB in latest CVS doesn't run"
    on 03/07/23, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> writes:
|
|dave[ruby/ruby 8:52:53] irb
|/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/kconv.rb:1:in `require': No such file to load -- 
|nkf (LoadError)
|         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/kconv.rb:1
|         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/locale.rb:33
|         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:21:in `require'
|         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:21
|         from /usr/local/bin/irb:10:in `require'
|         from /usr/local/bin/irb:10

That means your install is incomplete.  Here's the workaround.  Let me
know whether it works.

							matz.

--- lib/irb/locale.rb	22 Nov 2002 09:14:24 -0000	1.5
+++ lib/irb/locale.rb	23 Jul 2003 14:45:35 -0000
@@ -23,4 +23,3 @@ module IRB
     def initialize(locale = nil)
-      @lang = locale || ENV["IRB_LANG"] || ENV["LC_MESSAGES"] || ENV["LC_ALL"] || ENV["LANG"]
-      @lang = "C" unless @lang
+      @lang = locale || ENV["IRB_LANG"] || ENV["LC_MESSAGES"] || ENV["LC_ALL"] || ENV["LANG"] || "C" 
     end
@@ -29,11 +28,10 @@ module IRB
 
-    @@LC2KCONV = {
-      #      "ja" => Kconv::JIS,
-      #      "ja_JP" => Kconv::JIS,
-      "ja_JP.ujis" => Kconv::EUC,
-      "ja_JP.euc" => Kconv::EUC,
-      "ja_JP.eucJP" => Kconv::EUC,
-      "ja_JP.sjis" => Kconv::SJIS,
-      "ja_JP.SJIS" => Kconv::SJIS,
-    }
+    def lc2kconv(lang)
+      case lang
+      when "ja_JP.ujis", "ja_JP.euc", "ja_JP.eucJP"
+        Kconv::EUC
+      when "ja_JP.sjis", "ja_JP.SJIS"
+        Kconv::SJIS
+      end
+    end
 
@@ -43,3 +41,3 @@ module IRB
       when /^ja/
-	mes = Kconv::kconv(mes, @@LC2KCONV[@lang])
+	mes = Kconv::kconv(mes, lc2kconv(@lang))
       else