From: Brian Candler Date: 2010-12-03T08:02:12+09:00 Subject: Re: FasterCSV parsing issues James Edward Gray II wrote in post #965490: >> ruby-1.8.7-p302 > > > On Ruby 1.8.7, FasterCSV supports only four encodings (the same four > Ruby does) and Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) isn't one of them. But binary (-Kn) is one of them, and that should be fine for ISO-8859-1, shouldn't it? OP, are you running on a Mac by any chance? Apple built Ruby for OSX with a non-standard configuration so that $KCODE="UTF8" by default. Try using: ruby -e 'puts $KCODE' If it says UTF8, then try running your script again with ruby -Kn -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.