From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2011-02-03T03:25:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem win32-eventlog v0.5.2 on Ruby 1.9.1

On Feb 2, 2:40 pm, "Luis M." <lmayorga1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Luis M. wrote in post #979203:
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> > Luis Lavena wrote in post #979202:
> >> On Feb 2, 1:51pm, "Luis M." <lmayorga1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 3. Problem: On Ruby 1.8.7 my scripts using win32 evenlog api works fine
> >>> but on ruby 1.9.1 they don't. I know the String management has changed
> >>> on Ruby 1.9.1 and above.
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> >> Please try Ruby 1.9.2-p136.
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> >> Also, report the issue back to win32utils developers:
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> >>http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils
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> >> Who will tell you the same thing, try Ruby 1.9.2
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> > I will try this new version.
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> I tried the new version Ruby 1.9.2, installing the win32-eventlog gem
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> C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/win32-eventlog-0.5.2/lib/win32/eventlog .rb:14:in
> `[]': invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (ArgumentError)

First your script needs to be in the same encoding that eventlog is
expecting.

As I mentioned, please report this error/bug to win32utils developers
in the provided link, they might be able to help you better.

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Luis Lavena