Hello all, I am a nuby as far as Ruby is concerned and have decided to work on an IRC bot as my first pet project. To faciliate me in this I have installed the libnet-irc-ruby libs by Hiroshi Igarashi. Upon running my own test (as well as with the supplied example bot) I get confronted with the following error: adanidas:~/ruby$ ./acrobot.rb /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/localize.rb:139: Unknown coding system(""). (RuntimeError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/irc/irc.rb:13:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/irc/irc.rb:13 from /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/irc/client.rb:10:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/irc/client.rb:10 from ./acrobot.rb:6:in `require' from ./acrobot.rb:6 This makes it seem to me that I need to set $KIOCODE somewhere to something. Now my question is: Where do I set this and to what? Any insights would be much appreciated :) -- PGP: 0x4CE578BF ICQ: 760542 | Linux adanidas 2.2.16 is up 49 days, 15:53 http://uss-centauris.org/ | Reporter: Mr Gandhi, what do you think of Phone: (+31) 70 3467809 | Western Civilization? Cellular: (+31) 6 22091723 | Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.