From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-01-17T13:25:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange Encoding Behavior

On Jan 17, 12:55 am, Lui Kore <usur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The encoding of __FILE__ is always the same as Encoding.default_external
> even if there is a magic column. Sometimes it is necessary to convert
> the string into another encoding. Here is some code to demonstrate the
> issue:
>
> #coding: utf-8
>     # put the script in a not-pure-ascii path to see the difference
>     path = File.expand_path File.dirname __FILE__
>
>     puts RUBY_VERSION + ' ' + RUBY_PLATFORM
>       #=> "1.9.1 i386-mingw32" is my ruby version
>     puts path.encoding
>       #=> "GB2312" on my OS
>
>     # usually this "string.encode to, from" works,
>     # but HERE the new string's content bytes seems unchanged
>     puts \
>       path.encode 'utf-8', Encoding.default_external
>
>     path.force_encoding Encoding.default_external
>     puts path.encode 'utf-8'
>       # changed at last

At 1.9.1, and some part of 1.9.2 still display certain issues with
path/folders with non-ascii characters:

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1685

--
Luis Lavena