From: Peter Eldo Date: 2010-07-25T06:36:23+09:00 Subject: broken UTF-8 string begin File.new(path_file,"r").each { |line| puts line } rescue puts "Error read file #{subor}: #{$!}" next end In Ruby 1.9: broken UTF-8 string In Ruby 1.9.1: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 Read files is mail in other codepage, example 1251, 1250 or 88952-2, 88592-1 utf-8 System is Debian or Archlinux. Thx