X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=JjL1kVdoBGduL6KpzIkCWGvo3qvrF yjVY+wX7BGMHTdmIyEd10FHwaE6iiWHDwg9DCgS9JtriPxEPiER0+GMc3hW/RtjT OCJMPxqY1lpRTpv/+Re1JFEzJsyyKftAwDX+Z/AU8NMqxNICY4jRSVVlEGvzJ/bU NCgb4VPtoHygRI= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; s=default; bh=g9U3W0yOhSWA1L4EEv7aXe7b4kw=; b=pMy 8/C1NGiLWZChA/R+dwvw2jfFf7o/4MjODHgys9ahebGSsD7K0qVfDPaMrY/vxJ5w UVA/m7FgUhs3S2Y8RdUfU0+57VqGAwfvyxekXPeO7ctFNbcnLhFdpa/YfA7walLZ m3pAaTe+k5mIf/pKPlP77Vdzdn9m87/C0FaXlnyU= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-lb0-f177.google.com MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.150.194 with SMTP id uk2mr9065998lbb.67.1409903692217; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:54:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 09:54:52 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: gem command broken on Cygwin 64 with Ruby 2.0.0p481 From: Robert Klemme To: ruby-talk , cygwin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Hi folks, did someone of you experience this as well? $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1 arnie 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23:06 x86_64 Cygwin $ ruby --version ruby 2.0.0p481 (2014-05-08) [x86_64-cygwin] $ gem --version 2.4.1 $ gem list -l *** LOCAL GEMS *** io-console (0.4.2) json (1.8.1) minitest (4.7.5) psych (2.0.5) rake (10.3.2) rdoc (4.1.1) $ gem update Updating installed gems ERROR: While executing gem ... (ArgumentError) invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= $ LANG=C gem update Updating installed gems ERROR: While executing gem ... (ArgumentError) invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII Apparently when reading a file the environment's encoding information is applied. I'm just not sure whether this is an issue with gem command or a Cygwin adjustment to that. Bonus points for a solution. :-) Kind regards robert -- [guy, jim].each {|him| remember.him do |as, often| as.you_can - without end} http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple