From: nobu@... Date: 2014-11-10T08:24:53+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:66169] [ruby-trunk - Bug #10493] [Closed] Wrong encoding for Etc.getlogin in Windows Issue #10493 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada. Status changed from Feedback to Closed % Done changed from 0 to 100 Applied in changeset r48360. ---------- win32.c: login name encoding * ext/etc/etc.c (etc_getlogin): set login name encoding properly. [ruby-core:66163] [Bug #10493] ---------------------------------------- Bug #10493: Wrong encoding for Etc.getlogin in Windows https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10493#change-49868 * Author: D��vis Mos��ns * Status: Closed * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Category: ext * Target version: current: 2.2.0 * ruby -v: ruby 2.1.4p265 (2014-10-27 revision 48166) [x64-mingw32] * Backport: 2.0.0: REQUIRED, 2.1: REQUIRED ---------------------------------------- ~~~ruby name = Etc.getlogin # I've Windows username "D��vis" puts name # D���vis puts name.inspect # "D\xE2vis" puts name.encoding # ASCII-8BIT name.force_encoding('Windows-1257') puts name # D��vis ~~~ As you can see \xE2 isn't "��" in ASCII, but it is for Windws-1257 encoding. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/