Issue #5601 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada. Eric Jacoboni wrote: > To reproduce, use a directory named "Téléchargements" (as xdg-users-dir create it on some French Linux boxes). BTW, XDG's L10N strategy is completely wrong. It was the way Microsoft had used last century, and has thrown away finally. XDG is 10+ yrs behind. ---------------------------------------- Bug #5601: Ruby 1.9.3 fails to compile in directories with accent in their names http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5601 Author: Eric Jacoboni Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: 1.9.3 ruby -v: 1.9.3-p0 Trying to compile ruby in a directory with a name containing accents fails : To reproduce, use a directory named "Téléchargements" (as xdg-users-dir create it on some French Linux boxes). Download the ruby tar archive, place it in this directory, untar it and then try the stanza "./configure && make" : $ ./configure (...) $ make (...) linking miniruby ./tool/mkconfig.rb:11:in `require': incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and US-ASCII (Encoding::CompatibilityError) from ./tool/mkconfig.rb:11:in `<main>' -- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org