From: Dennis Nedry Date: 2010-06-17T22:49:17+09:00 Subject: Re: Encoding, "extended ansi", and unicode in 1.9 On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Michael Fellinger wrote: > > str has the encoding ISO-8859-1, probably inherited from your system locale. > Convert it to ASCII-8BIT before processing it. > > http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/ruby_19s_string Thanks, that worked. I guess we should always specify file encoding from now on. Take Care, mark -- "I've got ham but I'm not a hamster." -Bill Bailey