From: Michal Suchanek Date: 2009-09-01T16:12:31+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:25240] Re: [Bug #2026] String encodings are not supported by most of IO on Linux > > If I work on Windows, I expect that every filename will be stored in UTF-16LE, otherwise I'm in trouble again. On Windows the situation is somewhat more complicated. It does store the filenames in UTF-16 but it also has 8bit short filenames, and depending on the interface you use you might get to UTF-16, the "windows codepage" or the "dos codepage". Thanks Michal