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Mac OS X Filenames with Apostrophe’s and Ruby 1.9 Unicode Support

Posted on November 12, 2011November 12, 2011 by Jon Stacey

Ruby 1.9’s m17n (multilingualization) engine has eased some of the pains of supporting different encodings. Unfortunately, it makes things a little more difficult in the simplest of cases. I was introduced to this problem for the first time with the error message `invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)`. This is a mini crash course for understanding the…

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