Bug #606: Ruby Fails to Transcode Empty Strings http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/606 Author: James Gray Status: Open, Priority: Normal Category: M17N $ ruby_dev -ve 'p "abc".encode("Big5"); p "".encode("Big5")' ruby 1.9.0 (2008-09-27 revision 0) [i386-darwin9.5.0] "abc" -e:1:in `encode': code converter not found (UTF-8 to Big5) (Encoding::ConverterNotFoundError) from -e:1:in `<main>' ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org