How to fix Ruby script which fails with encoding error: “\xD8” on US-ASCII?

Question

I get the following error when running a project with:

cucumber --format junit --guess --out ./

This is the error:

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Answer 1

There are issues with your environments LC encodings.

Linux

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

OS X (pre Mnt. Lion)

export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

OS X (Mnt. Lion and later)

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Answer 2

The problem can be also fixed in Ruby code it-self, by adding the following code:

Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8
Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8