From: Peter John <digilant@...>
Date: 2010-06-21T09:39:09+09:00
Subject: Windows, Dir class and special characters

Hi,

I'm using ruby 1.9.1 on windows 7 x64. If I manually make a few test
files that have Polish characters in their names, e.g. testżłś.txt, and
then use the Dir class to get a directory listing, I find that the
incoming encoding is Windows-1252 and that the filenames have lost their
special characters - e.g. it would look like testzls.txt inside ruby.

I've spent the larger part of the day reading up on all the encoding
stuff in 1.9.1, tried things like

# encoding: utf-8

and so on with no success. How do I get into ruby the filenames that
show up in windows with Polish, Chinese, or Russian characters? Would be
even better to find a method that works universally on Windows / Mac /
Linux platforms.
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