Weird path problem & Ruby...

[lambchop]

I've been stumped on this problem for days and I have a feeling that it
is really simple...

I am trying to create a folder at the following location:
C:\documents and settings\[username]\application data\amaranth

The following code works great unless the username has a non-English
character in it (for example, Joe (with accent over the e)). In this case, when I try to use the
path, I get a "path not found" error, and it says that the path is:
C:\documents and settings\Jo\application data\amaranth

From what I can see, my code is striping out any non-English characters.
I'm not quite sure how to get these non-English characters to show up.

Here is my code:

  path = " " * 256
  path = ENV['APPDATA'].rstrip 
  $appPath = path + "\\Game"

Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

 

[khmp]

Hmm I thought strings in Ruby were utf8 which should handle Multilingual characters. Did you try string.toutf16 instead of string.rstring? By the way why do you have string.rstring in there? Other than that I have no idea why it was cut out. Sorry I couldn't be of much help :s