From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2011-08-12T09:37:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with Accent in Ruby 1.9+ (Latin Characters)

Regis d'Aubarede wrote in post #1016237:
> I think that Phillip Gawlowski  is right.
> I have try to restated this kind of issue, I get only
>   "invalid multibyte char" exception :
>
>
>> invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) (SyntaxError)
>> encoding.rb:2: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
>
> "incompatible character encoding: UTF-8 and IBM437" seem
> well append at the "puts" on stdout.
>
>
> On windows, I do all my stuff with 1.9.2 in utf-8, and i forget 1.8...
> Issue arrive when I test compatibility with JRuby !

Have you tried running your script directly from the command line?

But before, doing: chcp 1252 ?

That will activate latin codepage that should be compatible with UTF-8 
encoding.

You can permanently change that doing a registry edit:

http://superuser.com/questions/269818/change-default-code-page-of-windows-console-to-utf-8/269857#269857

Hope that helps
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