From: Andre Arvidsson Date: 2009-04-20T17:31:16+09:00 Subject: Re: Windows CMD and international chars (åäö) Andrey Kuznecov wrote: > Andrey Kuznecov wrote: >>> C:\XP\system32>chcp 65001 >>> Active code page: 65001 <------- UTF-8 > > In windows there are two locales: console (DOS VM) and system (OS) but > Ruby makes no difference. Thanks alot! I did a system('chcp 1252>nul') at the start of the file and now åäöÅÄÖ print correctly.... Again thanks and amazing how quick I got an answer to the question... /Andre -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.