From: "Damián M. González" Date: 2013-03-22T21:08:37+09:00 Subject: Re: File.exist? not working when directory contain letters like 'ñ' in its name. If you are not working with 2.0 you should use: #encode: utf-8 ...in the top of the script. Also you have to have the correct encoding configuration(utf-8 in this case) in your IDE. If that not solve your problem you will have to play with encode(), encoding() and force_encoding() string methods. Check out the documentation. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.