From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2011-11-04T22:30:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:40737] [ruby-trunk - Bug #5570][Open] Encoding of environment variables on Windows


Issue #5570 has been reported by Nikolai Weibull.

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Bug #5570: Encoding of environment variables on Windows
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5570

Author: Nikolai Weibull
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: core
Target version: 
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-09-13 revision 33263) [i386-mingw32]


It seems that the filesystem encoding is forced upon environment variables.  There is, however, no guarantee that this encoding is the correct one.  Getenv() probably shouldn���t be used on Windows at all.  Using _wgetenv instead should guarantee that the returned result is encoded properly and it can then be converted to the filesystem encoding.


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