From: "Dave.Hurrell@..." Date: 2010-05-30T09:31:03+09:00 Subject: Windows XP can create a Résumé.html file but ruby cannot. Windows XP can create a Résumé.html file but ruby cannot. Why? The following code created the wrong filename File.open("Résumé.html","w") { |file| file.write('xxx'); } Also, this code does not work str = "Résumé.html" filename = Iconv.conv('UTF-16','UTF-8',str) File.open(filename,"w") { |file| file.write('xxx'); } If I manually rename the file to Résumé.html, it does work. Setting the $KCODE="u" or $KCODE="UTF8" makes no difference. Whats wrong with ruby v1.8.7 (or is it me)?