From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2005-12-13T23:20:49+09:00
Subject: Iconv weirdness on Windows XP

Is anyone else having this problem?
This is a One-Click install of Ruby, with the iconv package installed.
charset.dll and iconv.dll are in c:\windows\system32
iconv.so is in the appropriate place deep within the Ruby folder hierarchy.

Here's a sample IRB session (sorry about the wrapping):
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

irb(main):001:0> require 'iconv' => true
irb(main):002:0> Iconv.iconv('utf-8', 'X-UNKNOWN', 'Hello, world')
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - iconv("utf-8", "X-UNKNOWN")
     from (irb):2:in `iconv' from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0> Iconv.iconv('utf-8', 'X-UNKNOWN', 'Hello, world')
     (irb):3: [BUG] rb_sys_fail(iconv("utf-8", "X-UNKNOWN")) - errno
== 0 ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more
information.

C:\Bin>

I first ran into this when running part of the TMail test suite, but I
can now easily duplicate it in IRB.

Thanks,
--Wilson.