>>>>> "Y" == Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz / zetabits.com> writes: Y> When you have spare time, could you check out and see Ruby M17N from Y> :pserver:anonymous / cvs.ruby-lang.org:/ruby -r ruby_m17n ? My question is probably stupid, but I've not found how to change the default encoding ? For example all file names returned by the methods of Dir (or the result of ``) use this default encoding, but how can I say that is, for example, "latin1" ? Guy Decoux