On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Robert Klemme
<shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> did someone of you experience this as well?
>
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 arnie 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23:06 x86_64 Cygwin
> $ ruby --version
> ruby 2.0.0p481 (2014-05-08) [x86_64-cygwin]
> $ gem --version
> 2.4.1
> $ gem list -l
>
> *** LOCAL GEMS ***
>
> io-console (0.4.2)
> json (1.8.1)
> minitest (4.7.5)
> psych (2.0.5)
> rake (10.3.2)
> rdoc (4.1.1)
> $ gem update
> Updating installed gems
> ERROR: While executing gem ... (ArgumentError)
> invalid byte sequence in UTF-8
> $ locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
> $ LANG=C gem update
> Updating installed gems
> ERROR: While executing gem ... (ArgumentError)
> invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII
>
> Apparently when reading a file the environment's encoding information
> is applied. I'm just not sure whether this is an issue with gem
> command or a Cygwin adjustment to that.
>
> Bonus points for a solution. :-)
Some feedback on the ruby-talk mailing list prompted me to experiment
a bit more. Apparently I found a solution which I post here for your
reference.
Setting the encoding to "BINARY" in the environment works:
$ LANG=C.BINARY gem update
Updating installed gems
Updating minitest
Fetching: minitest-5.4.1.gem (100%)
Successfully installed minitest-5.4.1
Parsing documentation for minitest-5.4.1
Installing ri documentation for minitest-5.4.1
Installing darkfish documentation for minitest-5.4.1
Done installing documentation for minitest after 3 seconds
Parsing documentation for minitest-5.4.1
Done installing documentation for minitest after 0 seconds
Gems updated: minitest
You can even get fancy and retain the language:
$ LANG="${LANG%%.*}.BINARY" gem update
Kind regards
robert
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