From: johan556@...
Date: 2007-07-05T22:00:43+09:00
Subject: File.unlink(nonwestern_filename) ---> Error on Windows

Hi!

I use Ruby on Windows, and tried to remove all files in a directory
with the code given below. But if the directory contains files with
filenames having non-western characters the operation fails.

I first encountered this problem when using FileUtils.rm_r, and that
method also fails (for the same reason I guess). This makes FileUtils
quite useless in some situations. We have for example Subversion
projects that contain files with Japanese characters (for testing that
our product works with such characters), and I also tried with Arabic
characters (stored in Unicode in NTFS in both cases).

Is it possible to get Ruby to work with filenames containing
non-western characters at all on Windows? If so, what should I do?

/Johan Holmberg

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Dir.chdir "nonwestern-files"

for entry in Dir.entries(".")
    next if entry == "."
    next if entry == ".."
    n = File.unlink(entry)
    puts "failed to delete #{entry}" if n == 0
end
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