Hi, It's the Windows One-Click Installer from Ruby's homepage. I tried to install it to my Windows Vista partition and i got the same result. As long as there is chinese characters in the string, it hangs there, until i press ctrl-c and return, it goes back to the prompt. On Sep 30, 2:21 am, Nobuyoshi Nakada <n... / ruby-lang.org> wrote: > Hi, > > At Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:55:03 +0900, > Mister Yu wrote in [ruby-talk:271650]: > > > i trace it down until i got to the line with Iconv in the console, > > everytime i execute the following, it hangs: > > How and from where did you install ruby and libiconv? > > -- > Nobu Nakada