On May 16, 8:22 ¨Βν¬ ΙμιαΜαϊαςιδιΌιμ®®®ΐμαϊαςιδισ®γονχςοτεΊ > After visiting ruby-lang.org, I decided to get the actual 1.9.2 > version via > > > ERROR: ¨Βθιμε εψεγυτιξηε®®¨ΕξγοδιξηΊΊΓοξφεςτεςΞοτΖουξδΕςςος© > code converter not found (UTF-16LE to IBM737) > > A workaround: > > $> chcp 850 > $> gem install <some gem> > $> chcp 737 > > I've queried for a solutions, but didn't found something concrete, > although this defect seems to be know for half a year. > > Is this an issue with ruby, with "gem" or with the rubyinstaller? > The error is not an bug, there is no way to convert IBM737 encoding to UTF16 or UTF8, period. You need to update your console to use a modern set of encoding/ codepage, also, do yourself a favor and use a TrueType font for it, which will solve any possible rendering issue you might experience in the future. See this: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Troubleshooting See how to permanently set your console. IBM737 and 850 are DOS-age encodings. -- Luis Lavena