Comments on: Solaris, Ruby and iconv. http://blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/2009/01/solaris-ruby-and-iconv/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:54:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Ben Summers http://blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/2009/01/solaris-ruby-and-iconv/#comment-72 Ben Summers Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:44:15 +0000 http://blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/?p=180#comment-72 It is easier to patch activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb than doing a recompile of ruby! See the final patch here: http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/1396-framework-crashes-on-launch-on-solaris-with-invalid-encoding-asciiignoretranslit-utf-8 Basically there's a minor bug which means that the code to recover from unsupported iconv doesn't actually recover from this particular unsupported encoding. Rails 2.2.2 on WebStack 1.4 works with these lines of code added to that one file, no other recompilation required. Ben It is easier to patch activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb than doing a recompile of ruby!

See the final patch here: http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/1396-framework-crashes-on-launch-on-solaris-with-invalid-encoding-asciiignoretranslit-utf-8

Basically there’s a minor bug which means that the code to recover from unsupported iconv doesn’t actually recover from this particular unsupported encoding. Rails 2.2.2 on WebStack 1.4 works with these lines of code added to that one file, no other recompilation required.

Ben

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