Hi Peter, Thanks for the reply. I've changed the func argument to 'utf-8-unix and it did not make a difference. Same error. - Marcelo. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 30.08.2012 um 19:41 schrieb Marcelo de Moraes Serpa: > > > By the way, I forgot to say that I have added the "(let > > (universal-coding-system-argument 'us-ascii-mac))" in an attempt to fix > it, > > but it made no difference whatsoever. > > Have you tried an UTF encoding? I think Ruby isn't as primitive as > US-ASCII… > > -- > Greetings > > Pete > > We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves > than by those which have occurred to others. > – Blaise Pascal > >