From: Bucco Date: 2007-03-19T02:05:07+09:00 Subject: Readlines help I am using the latest version of Ruby on Windows. When I do the following in irb: File.open('sometextfile.txt').readlines I get an array of unicode characters. The example in the book I am following along with, Everyday Scripting with Ruby, shows each array element as a line from the file. No Unicode. How do I get readlines to work without spitting out unicode? Thanks, SA