From: Tim Perrett Date: 2008-02-02T00:23:06+09:00 Subject: Re: is this a complex encoding problem? Figured the without BOM thing by using converter = Iconv.new("UTF-16BE", "ISO-8859-15") So now there is not BOM and the files 'look' identical. However: macbookpro:~/Desktop tpfgperrett$ md5 example.txt demo.txt MD5 (example.txt) = 0da14bc444c760de5a35299868c96f25 MD5 (demo.txt) = 6b1751450c2b58088a34fcae524e26ee They are still different :( How can I pick apart my two files to see the differences? Thanks Tim -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.