From: Thomas Chust <chust@...>
Date: 2009-07-07T23:48:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8 - character encoding

2009/7/7 Thomas Thomassen <thomas@thomthom.net>:
> [...]
> So it seems that the File class doesn't just handle ASCII, but maybe
> ANSI (Windows-1252) or ISO-8859-1. Or does this depend on some system
> setting?
> [...]

Hello,

how Windows interprets file paths depends on which API calls you use
and on the current system locale. There is one set of Windows API
functions that always use UTF-16 and another one that always uses the
encoding associated with the current system locale.

I think Ruby indirectly accesses the latter API and doesn't do any
character set conversions before passing strings to the operating
system, but I'm not entirely sure there.

cu,
Thomas


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