From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-01-13T01:17:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.entires and UTF-8

Hi,

On 1/13/06, Timo Hoepfner <th-dev@onlinehome.de> wrote:

> 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?

You have got a corrent UTF-8 string.  Unlike Windows XP, Mac OS X
decomposes character components as much as possible (Sorry I forgot
the correct term for this policy).  So what you got:

> # => ["a", "", "o", "", "u", "", "�", "A", "", "O", "", "U", ""]

is decomposed form of your string, a+umlaut, o+umlaut, etc.

matz.