From: Luther Thompson <lutheroto@...>
Date: 2009-02-17T22:55:23+09:00
Subject: Re: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (ArgumentError)

Tom Link wrote:
> When I recently stumbled over not so different problems (one of which
> is described here [1]) it was because the external encoding (see
> Encoding.default_external) defaulted to US-ASCII on cygwin because
> ruby191RC0 ignored the windows locale and the value of the LANG
> variable -- the part with the windows locale was fixed in the
> meantime. AFAIK if ruby 191 cannot determine the environment's locale,
> it defaults to US-ASCII which causes the described problem if a
> character is > 127.

Actually, I always set my LANG to C. Since my original post, I found 
that I had forgotten to set my LC_CTYPE to en_US.UTF-8, which is 
Ubuntu's default. After fixing that, I still got the same error, but 
with "UTF-8" instead of "US-ASCII".

I believe the metadata in that text file must be binary code that was 
put there by some word processor, because I remember seeing "Helvetica" 
somewhere in there.

Luther
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