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Non-ASCII characters in the path to ruby executable break require paths

Bug #9737: Non-ASCII characters in the path to ruby executable break require paths

Added by spatulasnout (B Kelly) over 11 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

Status:
Closed
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Target version:
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ruby -v:
ruby 2.2.0dev (2014-04-12 trunk 45576) [i386-mswin32_100]
[ruby-core:62002]

Description

Hi,

On Windows, if non-ASCII characters exist the path on which the ruby
interpreter is invoked, the character encoding is not handled properly
when the require paths in $: are created, making ruby unable to require
libraries in its standard lib paths.

In the first two examples, the working directory of the shell is not
a factor; what matters is the path by which the ruby interpreter is
invoked.

Here we invoke ruby using a path containing non-ASCII characters:

$ M:\dev\ruby-build\zz-können2\bin\ruby.exe -v --disable-gems -e "p $:.first.encoding, $:.first; require 'uri'" ruby 2.2.0dev (2014-04-12 trunk 45576) [i386-mswin32_100] #<Encoding:ASCII-8BIT> "M:/dev/ruby-build/zz-k\xF6nnen2/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.2.0" -e:1:in `require': cannot load such file -- uri (LoadError) from -e:1:in `<main>' 

Here we invoke ruby in the same location, but instead using the
NTFS "short" name on the path so that it is ASCII only:

$ M:\dev\ruby-build\ZZ-KNN~2\bin\ruby.exe -v --disable-gems -e "p $:.first.encoding, $:.first; require 'uri'" ruby 2.2.0dev (2014-04-12 trunk 45576) [i386-mswin32_100] #<Encoding:IBM437> "M:/dev/ruby-build/ZZ-KNN~2/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.2.0" 

In the second two examples, we change the working dir instead of
specifying the interpreter path directly. The results are the same:

# working dir: M:\dev\ruby-build\zz-können2\bin $ .\ruby.exe -v --disable-gems -e "p $:.first.encoding, $:.first; require 'uri'" ruby 2.2.0dev (2014-04-12 trunk 45576) [i386-mswin32_100] #<Encoding:ASCII-8BIT> "M:/dev/ruby-build/zz-k\xF6nnen2/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.2.0" -e:1:in `require': cannot load such file -- uri (LoadError) from -e:1:in `<main>' # working dir: M:\dev\ruby-build\ZZ-KNN~2\bin $ .\ruby.exe -v --disable-gems -e "p $:.first.encoding, $:.first; require 'uri'" ruby 2.2.0dev (2014-04-12 trunk 45576) [i386-mswin32_100] #<Encoding:IBM437> "M:/dev/ruby-build/ZZ-KNN~2/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.2.0" 

I'm guessing this will be related to the GetModuleFileName() call in:

win32/stub.c: lenexe = (size_t)GetModuleFileName(NULL, exename, sizeof exename); 

which would presumably need to become the Unicode GetModuleFileNameW()
version instead?

Regards,

Bill

Updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans) over 4 years ago Actions #2 [ruby-core:104425]

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

This issue appears to have been fixed, probably in Ruby 3.0. Using the latest RubyInstaller-head:

D:\zz-können2>D:\zz-können2\Ruby31-x64\bin\ruby.exe -v --disable-gems -e "p $:.first.encoding, $:.first; require 'uri'" ruby 3.1.0dev (2021-06-27 master e724857f42) [x64-mingw-ucrt] #<Encoding:IBM437> "D:/zz-k\x94nnen2/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/site_ruby/3.1.0" 
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