From: "Sebastjan H." Date: 2012-05-21T19:41:24+09:00 Subject: Re: reading from and writing to a Unicode encoded file - issues when using Shoes Hi, something goes wrong with this block of code when I use Shoes to package an app: >> data=nil >> open("data.txt", "rb:UTF-16LE") {|fin| data=fin.read() } >> open("data.txt", "wb:UTF-8") { |fout| fout.write(data) } if data I've attached the entire script. If I comment out this block the jibberish appears again in the file. However, If I let run this block of code, the content is deleted and the Alert is not displayed. Could someone take a look where I went wrong. I am still learning Shoes too:) kind regards, Seba Attachments: http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/7411/dup_app.rb -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.