Ruby, “incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and CP852 (Encoding::CompatibilityError)”

Question

Why

# encoding: utf-8
out=File.open(\"z\\\\test.txt\", \"a\") 
out.puts \"ç\"  
out.close
out=File.open(\"z\\\\test.txt\", \"r\")
puts out.read+\"ś\"
         


        

Answer 1

Your script works fine for me on my box.

Is the error coming from your terminal application or from Ruby?

My terminal app is set to use utf-8.

You can probably avoid this problem by explicitly supplying an encoding when opening your files. See http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/File.html#M000069 and follow the links to IO::new.