Bug #10126: Dir.home encoding is incorrect on Windows

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: windows
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 2.0.0p481
• Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN

[davispuh (Dāvis Mosāns)]

Dir.home string itself is actually returned encoded in cp775 (no matter what consoles encoding is)
but encoding information is as windows default encoding.

For example, if my home directory is C:\Users\Dāvis and windows default encoding 1257 with cosnole's encoding as 1252

dir = Dir.home
=> "C:/Users/D\x83vis"
dir.encoding
=> #<Encoding:Windows-1257>
puts dir
=> C:/Users/D�vis
dir.force_encoding('cp775')
puts dir
=> C:/Users/Dāvis

As can see, x83 is ā character in 775 encoding.

[davispuh (Dāvis Mosāns)]

Looks like this have been fixed in Ruby 2.1

Testing with ruby 2.1.4p265 (2014-10-27 revision 48166) [x64-mingw32]

dir = Dir.home
puts dir
=> C:/Users/Dāvis
puts dir.encoding
=> #<Encoding:Windows-1257>

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed