From: Jonathan Paisley <jp-www@...>
Date: 2005-04-11T18:49:37+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyCocoa 0.4.1: problem with stringValue (NSCharacterConversionException)

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:00:18 +0900, kimura wataru wrote:

> Thanks for your reporting.
> 
> That's a bug of RubyCocoa, maybe.
> RubyCocoa calls method -[NSString cString] in some procedure. In this
> method, an exception occurs when system cannot convert encoding of the
> receiver string to "default encoding", not Unicode, without loss. The
> default encoding is determined from your language setting on System
> Preferences > International.

Would it be appropriate to replace all calls to [NSString cString] with
[NSString UTF8String]? (and set $KCODE='u' in Ruby)