From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-08-05T05:49:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG?] UTF8 ruby and win32 dir

Does it help if you run with -K? (aka $-K)

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre Baillet [mailto:oct@zoy.org] 
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:41 PM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: [BUG?] UTF8 ruby and win32 dir
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> not sure at all about this one, but on my windows XP pro French, 
> 
> doing a Dir.entries.each on a folder with accented letter 
> doesn't gives UTF-8 back but rather the local encoding for my 
> filesystem :
> 
> in a folder containing the sub-folders: 
> t�t�
> �f�l 
> 
> this script:
> file = File.open("ouput.txt","w").binmode
> Dir.new("d:/test_accent").each{ |dir|
>  file.puts dir
>  }
> 
> spits out a latin1 file (windows-1252, i guess) and not a 
> unicode one when run using ruby -KU.
> 
> I would have expected ruby to give back UTF8 values when 
> using the standard library.
> 
> Should I convert the latin1 to UTF-8 by myself ?
> Thanks a lot,
> -- 
> Pierre Baillet
> Ruby: happy 1.8.0!
>