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Backport #8943
closedInvalid encoding for Windows Registry
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Description
=begin
It's not possible to correctly read non-ASCII registry values. It's also not possible to write them with correct encoding.
to test import ((<test.reg|URL:https://gist.github.com/davispuh/6676385#file-test-reg>))
then ((<test3.rb|URL:https://gist.github.com/davispuh/6676377#file-test3-rb>))
Output on Ruby 2.0 (it's same for 1.9.3 except encoding is US-ASCII not UTF-8, but both are wrong)
N:\Projects>ruby test3.rb
UTF-8
�??�?�
"\xE5??\xE4?\xE2"
test
(it hangs here)
screenshot of registry after running it ((URL:http://i.imm.io/1gFES.png))
seems that whoever wrote Ruby code to interact with WinAPI had no idea about encodings/code pages Windows uses as there's loads of issues and they've been for years.
=end
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