From: Nicolas Gaiffe <nicolas.gaiffe@...>
Date: 2009-01-09T18:14:40+09:00
Subject: Encoding issue for special characters on Windows

Hi,

I am facing an issue with special characters handling inside a Ruby
script running on Windows and am sure some of you could help me on
this.

This script copies files such as "<English_name>.txt" to
"<Other_language_name>.txt". But once translated, the new filename may
have special characters. 'ä' for instance.

Running
  puts 'ä'
in a Ruby script gives
  'õ'
as an output, whereas the same code in irb gives
  'ä'

There must be an encoding issue at some point in my script but I
didn't manage to fix it (tried different values of '#encoding:'
without success). Any clue ?

Many thanks in advance
Best regards

Nicolas