Issue #9019 has been reported by sarsntony (Hanwool Lee). ---------------------------------------- Bug #9019: encoding: EUC-KR or EUC-JP does not seem to work https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9019 Author: sarsntony (Hanwool Lee) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: ruby -v: 2.0.0 Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN #encoding: euc-kr puts "??????" ABOVE CODE returns test.rb:2: invalid multibyte char (EUC-KR) #encoding: utf-8 puts "??????" ABOVE CODE returns ?????? similar behavior on euc-jp as well. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/