From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-09-14T23:35:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Encoding error while installing rails on ruby 1.9.2

On Sep 14, 10:57 am, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Benoit Daloze wrote:
> > AFAIK, with 1.8, he would just get unreadable characters in his
> > terminal
>
> Given that the error messages from ruby are themselves readable, it's a
> fair bet that IBM737 is at least ASCII-compatible.
>

This is what Roger Pack asked on Ruby core about IBM737

> > P.S.: Why `gem` is trying to convert from UTF-16LE ?
>
> I wondered that too.
>
> But more importantly, why is the locale's default_encoding significant?
> Is it reading files from the filesystem without specifying the locale
> (or binary mode)? If so that's a "bug" in rubygems, but it's the
> language which makes these bugs occur.

Excellent question, seems to me that is trying to parse some gemspec
contents (my guess)

Complete output of "gem install xxx --debug -V" will be great to have
when chcp is set to 737

--
Luis Lavena