From: David Barri <japgolly@...>
Date: 2006-11-14T09:28:58+09:00
Subject: Ruby on win32 cannot handle certain filenames

Hello all!

This is my first post in any one the ruby forums :)

I have a serious ruby windows problem. When I use IO related calls (such 
as Dir.glob, File.open, etc) on my machine (WinXP), filenames are always 
returned in the shift_jis charset. I've been using iconv to convert to 
utf8 but then I came across a much more serious problem: because 
File.open is using the shift_jis charset for filenames, it is NOT 
POSSIBLE (!) for Ruby to open files that have say European chars in the 
filename!! In this day and age SURELY it cannot be the case that it's 
not possible in Ruby! It must be my inexperience :) There must be some 
way that I don't know about. Any ideas/opinions/suggestions?

Also, I've tried changing the KCODE but it has absolutely no effect on 
Dir.glob or Flie.open.

Also, when I used Dir.glob, Japanese filenames worked fine but one file 
that had an 谷 in it (e with umlat) had been converted somewhere in 
ruby's internals to just a plain ASCII e. There must be some way to 
disable this internal charset conversion.

Golly

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