From: Timo Hoepfner <th-dev@...>
Date: 2006-01-13T00:21:29+09:00
Subject: Dir.entires and UTF-8

Hi,

What's going on here? Ths is on MacOS X 10.4.4. Looks like  
Dir#entries returns strings encoded with some encoding I didn't  
expect. How can I convert the string to UTF8?

$KCODE='UTF8'
require 'jcode'
s="�������"
puts s.split(//).inspect
# => ["�", "�", "�", "�", "�", "�", "�"]
test_dir="/tmp/test"
`mkdir #{test_dir}`
`touch #{test_dir}/#{s}`
f=Dir.entries(test_dir).last
puts f.split(//).inspect
# => ["a", "", "o", "", "u", "", "�", "A", "", "O", "", "U", ""]

Timo