From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2008-12-15T18:15:28+09:00
Subject: Re: get system encoding?

Hi,

2008/12/15 Christian Kerth <christian.kerth@dynamicmedia.at>:
> Hi!
>
> I have the following problem.
>
> I use the ruby function Dir.getwd to get the working directory of my
> running ruby application. I need to save this via a firebird adapter to
> my DB.
>
> When Dir.getwd contains special characters like "ß" the database insert
> failes due to a wrong encoding. On my machine i have windows-1252
> encoding, the firebird adapter requires utf-8. If i force a charset
> conversion with iconv from windows-1252 to UTF-8 it works.
>
> The open question is: How can i obtain the system encoding of my windows
> machine?
Try this

irb(main):001:0> "windows-#{`chcp`.scan(/\d+$/)}"
=> "windows-949"

HTH,

Park Heesob