From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2009-04-08T16:58:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9 still cannot list all files on Vista or XP?

2009/4/8 Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com>:
>
> On Apr 7, 2009, at 22:59 , SpringFlowers AutumnMoon wrote:
>
>> both methods show ????????.txt   when the filename has foreign
>> characters.  Can Ruby 1.9 readily handle this task rather than resorting
>> to Win32API?  Thanks.
>
> show where? on what? what text encodings does it handle? what text encodings
> did you set ruby up for?
>
> On OSX:
>
> % cd x
> % touch ☃
> % ls
> ☃
> % ruby -e 'p Dir["*"]'
> ["\342\230\203"]
> % ruby -KU -e 'p Dir["*"]'
> ["☃"]
> % ~/.multiruby/install/1.9.1-p0/bin/ruby -e 'p Dir["*"]'
> ["☃"]
>
> You've got 2 sides to this equation, ruby's encodings, and your
> environment's encodings.
>
This is Windows specific issue.
Refer to the OP's original posting http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/163681

As far as I know, this issue is not fixed in ruby 1.9.1

Regards,

Park Heesbob