it doesn't accept non-ascii characters in file path

[germanogmn1]

If I put features in a directory that contains utf-8 characters in the name, when I run cucumber I get the following error:

incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8 (Encoding::CompatibilityError)

[aslakhellesoy]

What is the path, what OS are you on and what ruby version are you running?

[germanogmn1]

I have tested on Linux and Mac OS with ruby 1.9.2-p290.

The path which the error ocurred were ~/Área de Trabalho/project.

[nicholaspufal]

I confirm this issue.

I did replicate it on my Mac.

Simply create a dir and name it with special characters (such as a simple ç for example). Inside, create a basic structure for Cucumber (add a feature to /features and it's step definitions to /features/step_definitions/). All that can be done in english.

Now, when you run "cucumber" in a shell, the error will pop up and the task is going to be aborted.

[germanogmn1]

The error occurs when I add a single step definition.
Here's a better explanation of the error:
http://pastie.org/2622727

[edivandecastro]

I'm also having the same problem.

ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [x86_64-linux]
cucumber (1.2.1)

The error
http://pastie.org/4521692

Within the directory Hello have:
features/ greeter_spec.rb spec/

The file greeter_spec.rb
http://pastie.org/4521700

Who find a solution be sure to alert.

[edivandecastro]

I found out what the problem really is encoding, but not in the file but in path file.

I have the stack
ruby-1.9.2-p290@rails3-2-3-x86_64-linux- edivansoares@9678:~/Área de Trabalho/Hello>

the problem that the "Área de Trabalho" was to be "desktop", but "desktop" in Portuguese is "Área de Trabalho".

To resolve or change to a directory without special characters or places that force_encoding ('utf-8')
in/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/core_ext/proc.rb

cucumber developers could solve this problem.

[mattwynne]

@edivandecastro you could be a Cucumber developer! Send us a (tested) pull request with the fix and I'll merge it in.

[os97673]

I love m17n! Proc.to_s returns string in ASCII-8BIT encoding even if path has unicode characters. But Dir.pwd returns utf-8 string and String#index can not work with it.
Thus I've forced ASCII-8BIT for pwd too and it looks like everything is working now.
But definitely ruby has some problems with encodings and it is very strange to see them in the language which is developed in non-English speaking country :(

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