Ruby 1.9.1: Encoding trouble: broken US-ASCII String

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So I would read from this that the OP has either fallen foul of the
US-ASCII fallback (e.g. no langinfo.h when building under Cygwin), or
else his environment has explicitly picked US-ASCII.

Somebody mentions on Issue 3824: test_tarfile fails on cygwin (unicode decode error) - Python tracker that:
"And nl_langinfo(CODESET) is useless on cygwin because it's always US-
ASCII."

And here: http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/vorbis-tools/intl/localcharset.c
"Cygwin 2006 does not have locales. nl_langinfo (CODESET) always
returns "US-ASCII"."

If I understood you right, this could cause the problems I
encountered.

Cygwin 1.7 is currently in beta. Maybe this improves things in this
respect?

Regards,
Thomas.

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Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

open(path, "rb") is your friend. It sets encoding to binary.

Thanks.

"rb" is now performing two jobs then - prevent line-ending translation
(on those platforms which do it), and set encoding to binary. Something
to remember.

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