Issue #877 has been updated by Luis Lavena. Similar situation with print of encoded characters happened to Cucumber developers: http://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/16211-cucumber/tickets/81 They ended using chcp and Iconv to do the character conversion back and forth. ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/877 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org