On 10 Wrz, 13:26, Lars Christensen <lar... / belunktum.dk> wrote: > On Sep 10, 1:00 ¨Βν¬ ΝΑχιξιαςσλΌΝΑχιξιας®®®ΐηναιμ®γονχςοτεΊ > > > Using Ruby in NetBeans I've got following error in separate cases with > > gems: > > > <path>/<file>.so:1: Invalid char `\220' in expression. > > > What is it about ? > > By coincience, I stumbled over the exact same error message yesterday > while making a wrapper for some ruby scripts. It turned out I had > accidentally called ruby.exe with the ruby.exe executable as argument, > for example (simplified): > > system("ruby c:\\ruby\\bin\\ruby.exe") > > '\220' is 0x90 HEX and the third byte (after two ASCII chars) in a > Windows executable or DLL. Ruby doesn't like that when attempting to > parse an executable. > > Hope it helps, > Lars Maybe *.so files needs to be saved in a different encoding (ASCII, UTF, ...) ?