Bug #3975: German Umlaut in environment variable breaks usage of FileUtils

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18) [i386-mingw32]

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Hi,

when having a german Umlaut (Ä, Ü, Ö, ?) in an environment variable, the usage of FileUtils seems to break, because it can't handle the conversion to UTF-8.

Example:
ENV['USERPROFILE'] is "C:\Users\Nameü"

Using:
path = ENV['USERPROFILE']
FileUtils.cp_r "#{path}/blah/" "#{path}/blah2"

results in "fileutils.rb:1247:in mkdir "\x81" to UTF-8 in conversion from Windows-1525 to UTF-8 (Encoding::UndefinedConversionError)" because the "ü" can't be converted.
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[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Priority changed from 5 to Normal

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[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Feedback

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The error message:
"fileutils.rb:1247:in mkdir "\x81" to UTF-8 in conversion from Windows-1525 to UTF-8 (Encoding::UndefinedConversionError)"
is strange; we didn't support the encoding named Windows-1525.
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[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Feedback to Rejected

I close this as Rejected since no feedback provided.
Please reopen this if it still happens on the latest version of ruby.