From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2011-05-16T23:35:25+09:00
Subject: Re: BARRIER - ruby gem - code converter not found (UTF-16LE to IBM737)

On May 16, 10:22 am, Ilias Lazaridis <il...@lazaridis.com> wrote:
> [...] - (off topic comments)
>
> To readers:
>
> As a reminder, the main topic is this defect:
>
> "
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Encoding::ConverterNotFoundError)
>     code converter not found (UTF-16LE to IBM737)
>
> Is this an issue with ruby, with "gem" or with the rubyinstaller?
> "
>
> other people have asked over half a year ago, thus this should be a
> know issue:
>
> The issue is an Entry Barrier to Rails, in this case:
>
> Encoding error while installing rails on ruby 1.9.2http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/08...
>
> Any hint is welcome.
>

The hints are in the thread you referred to, the reason is there and
in my previous answer.

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Luis Lavena