Bug #8677: $LOAD_PATH did not encoded into the "internal encoding"

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p277 (2013-07-23 revision 42121) [i386-mingw32]
• Tags: core, patch, maybenotbug

[[e-mail] (贾 延平)]

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When I use utf-8 as the internal encoding, and I require some file with Chinese name,and the require failure with:
(({E:/code/rubyinstaller-master/sandbox/ruby19_mingw/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:51:in `require': incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and GBK (Encoding::CompatibilityError)}))

I encode the $LOAD_PATH to utf-8 encoding And the problem gone.

So I think we should encoding the $LOAD_PATH into the internal encoding.

Is it right?
If so,I will try to create a patch.I not,please tell me the right way.

thanks a lot
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[jonforums (Jon Forums)]

When require fails, is cmd.exe using codepage 936?

What happens when you chcp 65001 in cmd.exe but do not encode $LOAD_PATH to utf-8?

[[e-mail] (贾 延平)]

jonforums (Jon Forums) wrote:

When require fails, is cmd.exe using codepage 936?
yes

What happens when you chcp 65001 in cmd.exe but do not encode $LOAD_PATH to utf-8?
require do work with my patch for bug https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8676，and the $LOAD_PATH's encoding is UTF-8.

[jonforums (Jon Forums)]

What happens when you chcp 65001 in cmd.exe but do not encode $LOAD_PATH to utf-8?
require do work with my patch for bug https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8676，and the $LOAD_PATH's encoding is UTF-8.

OK. But do either of these also fix this failure?

1. chcp 65001 in cmd.exe, or
2. use powershell

I'm curious whether those quick non-ruby changes also work; simple workarounds that don't require your patch + $LOAD_PATH encoding tweak.

[[e-mail] (贾 延平)]

jonforums (Jon Forums) wrote:

What happens when you chcp 65001 in cmd.exe but do not encode $LOAD_PATH to utf-8?
require do work with my patch for bug https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8676，and the $LOAD_PATH's encoding is UTF-8.

OK. But do either of these also fix this failure?

1. chcp 65001 in cmd.exe, or
2. use powershell

I'm curious whether those quick non-ruby changes also work; simple workarounds that don't require your patch + $LOAD_PATH encoding tweak.

chcp 65001 can make the $LOAD_PATH encoding to UTF-8,and use powershell need chcp too.
The patch I mentioned in the other issue is to fix the require path with UTF-8 encoding and NON-ASCII name,and without this patch the $LOAD_PATH is UTF-8 encoding and the required file is UTF-8 encoding too,But can not load file.

[[e-mail] (贾 延平)]

• File loadpath.patch loadpath.patch added

Submit a patch to use rb_str_encode_ospath encode $LOADPATH

[[e-mail] (贾 延平)]

Hope fix in Ruby 2.1

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• Backport deleted (1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN)

I'm unsure the precise procedure to reproduce the issue, but I couldn't repro it in any way. Maybe fixed by #18191? Feel free to ping me if it is not fixed yet.