What's your $LC_CTYPE? What OS are you on? Konstantin On Oct 21, 2011, at 09:43 , Perry Smith wrote: > Ruby and I are back in counseling... Its always the same thing with her.= "I'm throwing an Encoding exception!!!" >=20 > Every time I install a gem like thin, I have to remember to go and edit t= he script to add in the -KU. I sprinkle -KU like 12 step programs sprinkle= mottos. >=20 > It really has been an extremely frustrating and draining experience. Rub= y is no longer the love of my life. >=20 > Rails, thin, rvm, almost nothing is really and truly ruby 1.9 compliant -= - not really. Not when you include all the encoding problems that are stil= l very common in my life and I assume in the life of anyone trying to use = Ruby in any serious fashion. >=20 > Is there a compile time option (or can one be added) that says "I don't c= are!!! -- just cram the two strings together and eat your spinach!" Becaus= e, ultimately, I've yet to find anything except ruby that actually cares. >=20 > Thank you, > pedz >=20 >=20