From: Bosko Ivanisevic <bosko.ivanisevic@...>
Date: 2009-04-08T16:35:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9 still cannot list all files on Vista or XP?

On Apr 8, 7:59 am, SpringFlowers AutumnMoon <summercooln...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I just tried using Ruby 1.9 and it seemed that it still cannot list all
> files in a folder on XP or Vista when the filenames contain Chinese
> characters, Japanese characters, or any foreign characters other than
> English.
>
> These two methods are used:   entries and glob
>
> files = Dir.new(basedir).entries
>
> Dir.chdir(basedir)
> files = Dir.glob("*");
>
> both methods show ????????.txt   when the filename has foreign
> characters.  Can Ruby 1.9 readily handle this task rather than resorting
> to Win32API?  Thanks.
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

What is code page of your command prompt? When ??????.txt is shown in
the console on Windows it is usually problem of code page settings.