Issue #877 has been updated by Usaku NAKAMURA. Category set to core Status changed from Open to Rejected ruby -v set to - There are no plan to resolve the original problem on 1.8. You must pass the path with Win32 file API's encoding to ruby. I know it's VERY inconvenient for users in Europe, but we cannot break compatibility of commandline/path handling in 1.8 branch. ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/877 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org