# Can't compile

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-compile/124089>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 24, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-compile/124089 "2007-12-24T15:03:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![caefer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@caefer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/caefer)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-compile/124089/1 "2007-12-24T15:03:39Z")

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Hello

When compiling ruby from svn trunk, I get:

/home/cpet2308/privat/DivRubyTing/ruby-clean/tool/instruction.rb:1318:in  
`encode': transcoding not supported (from ASCII-8BIT to ISO-8859-1) (ArgumentError) from /home/cpet2308/privat/DivRubyTing/ruby-clean/tool/instruction.rb:1318:in`write’  
from  
/home/cpet2308/privat/DivRubyTing/ruby-clean/tool/instruction.rb:1318:in  
`puts' from /home/cpet2308/privat/DivRubyTing/ruby-clean/tool/instruction.rb:1318:in`block (2 levels) in generate’  
from  
/home/cpet2308/privat/DivRubyTing/ruby-clean/tool/instruction.rb:1318:in  
`open' from /home/cpet2308/privat/DivRubyTing/ruby-clean/tool/instruction.rb:1318:in`block in generate’  
from  
/home/cpet2308/privat/DivRubyTing/ruby-clean/tool/instruction.rb:1316:in  
`each' from /home/cpet2308/privat/DivRubyTing/ruby-clean/tool/instruction.rb:1316:in`generate’  
from ./tool/insns2vm.rb:14:in `’  
make: \*\*\* [optinsn.inc] Fejl 1

I’m running Debian unstable.

I tried to change my LANG to da\_DK.UTF-8, but got the same problem, only  
with “transcoding not supported (from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8)…”

I also tried to change the default locale of my system to da\_DK.UTF-8,  
but same error.

Anybody else seeing this?

- Chr.