From: bugmenot bugmenot <redmine@...>
Date: 2010-10-22T22:01:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:32880] [Ruby 1.9-Bug#3975][Open] German Umlaut in environment variable breaks usage of FileUtils

Bug #3975: German Umlaut in environment variable breaks usage of FileUtils
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3975

Author: bugmenot bugmenot
Status: Open, Priority: High
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18) [i386-mingw32]

Hi,

when having a german Umlaut (��, ��, ��, ?) in an environment variable, the usage of FileUtils seems to break, because it can't handle the conversion to UTF-8.

Example:
ENV['USERPROFILE'] is "C:\\Users\Name��"

Using:
path = ENV['USERPROFILE']
FileUtils.cp_r "#{path}/blah/" "#{path}/blah2"

results in "fileutils.rb:1247:in mkdir "\x81" to UTF-8 in conversion from Windows-1525 to UTF-8 (Encoding::UndefinedConversionError)" because the "��" can't be converted.


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