From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-11-15T02:26:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on win32 cannot handle certain filenames

On 11/14/06, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> > Also, when I used Dir.glob, Japanese filenames worked fine but one file
> > that had an � 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.
> Not ruby's internals, it's done in Windows kernel.

Sort of. FindFirstFile is used, not FindFirstFileW (which returns a
UTF-16 string). The Windows kernel does the translation "safely", but
if Ruby used FindFirstFileW (explicitly!), it would work. Sadly, this
is very difficult without an encoding-aware String.

-austin
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