From: ruby-lang.org-78914@... Date: 2015-08-02T20:29:51+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:70217] [Ruby trunk - Bug #11412] [Open] Filename encoding issues (Windows) Issue #11412 has been reported by Daniel Frank. ---------------------------------------- Bug #11412: Filename encoding issues (Windows) https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11412 * Author: Daniel Frank * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * ruby -v: ruby 2.2.2p95 (2015-04-13 revision 50295) [x64-mingw32] * Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- Ruby is apparently unable to find files it just told me are there (containing japanese characters). Demo code: Dir.foreach('.') do |entry| puts "#{entry} exists? " + File.exist?(entry).to_s end Output: C:\tmp\test\filenames>C:\tmp\rubybackup\ruby-2.2.2-x64-mingw32\bin\ruby.exe test.rb . exists? true .. exists? true a.md exists? true b.txt exists? true test.rb exists? true ???.txt exists? false Directory contents according to cmd.exe/dir: 02.08.2015 22:18 . 02.08.2015 22:18 .. 02.08.2015 22:04 0 a.md 02.08.2015 22:04 0 b.txt 02.08.2015 22:20 87 test.rb 02.08.2015 22:04 0 ???.txt The undisplayable filename contains japanese characters and should read: ���������.txt C:\tmp\test\filenames>chcp Active code page: 850 Attached zip file contains all files necessary to see the problem (with the exception of the script the files have a size of zero bytes). ---Files-------------------------------- filenames.zip (611 Bytes) -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/