From: "Augie De Blieck Jr." Date: 2007-03-20T03:03:28+09:00 Subject: Re: Readlines help I have a feeling it'll be a Windows irb configuration issue. I just tried it on my Windows box and everything parses fine. Unless your text file isn't plain ASCII, perhaps? Have you tried a different text file? -Augie On 3/18/07, Bucco wrote: > 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. >