On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Austin Ziegler <halostatue / gmail.com> wrote: Thanks everyone for the comments received. I've taken the approach that I mentioned in my last message in response to Kaspar. You can see the latest test code (where I have two data files; one latin1 and one UTF-8). I'll be preparing a release this weekend. Sadly, JRuby in 1.9 mode won't work because of an apparent bug in JRuby itself, and "jruby --1.9 -S rake test" only looks like it works because the test actually runs JRuby again in 1.8 mode. A bug has been filed for the former case, but an improvement has not yet been filed for the latter case. -a -- Austin Ziegler halostatue / gmail.com austin / halostatue.ca http://www.halostatue.ca/ http://twitter.com/halostatue