Austin Ziegler <halostatue <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:33:39 +0900, Jochen Immendoerfer
> <jo <at> h0me.homelinux.net> wrote:
> > For me it looks like as if win32ole is not able to handle the charset.
> > Any further ideas?
> 
> This looks to be a bug. I couldn't get it to work with ÆüËܸì, regardless
> of the setting of KCODE. I'm not sure if it's a Win32 installer bug or
> a Ruby Win32OLE bug. Are you able to build this yourself or can you
> try the alternative version (sorry, I don't have a link). It may also
> be worth visiting the RubyForge project and reporting Ruby bugs there.
> 
> -austin

I built ruby with cygwin from source and experienced the same behaviour. Looks
like it's not a one-click-ruby bug but a WIN32OLE bug. I'm going to submit a bug
report at rubyforge. 

Thanks for your help!

jochen