From: Luther <lutheroto@...>
Date: 2009-02-17T10:33:39+09:00
Subject: Re: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (ArgumentError)

On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 14:20 +0900, Tom Link wrote:
> > but now I know my program will puke
> > on any text file with multibyte characters.
> 
> Not necessarily.
> 
> Here is a useful summary of encodings in 1.9:
> http://blog.nuclearsquid.com/writings/ruby-1-9-encodings
> 
> Basically, you have script encoding, internal encoding, and external
> encoding. In you case, you should probably read the files as ASCII8BIT
> or binary, I guess.
> 

Thank you. I've put 'r:binary' in the line where I open the file, and
now it seems to work fine. Although if I didn't want to be lazy, I would
probably read it with the default encoding, catch the ArgumentError,
then reread the file.

Thanks again...
Luther