# JRuby 1.2.0RC2 Released **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 6, 2009, 11:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc2-released/162223 "2009-03-06T23:38:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thomas_E)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2009, 11:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc2-released/162223/1 "2009-03-06T23:38:11Z")
The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.2.0RC2 Homepage: [http://www.jruby.org/](http://www.jruby.org/) Download: [http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/](http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/) JRuby 1.2.0RC2 has fixed many many compatibility issues and continued to improve general performance. Due to popular demand we have a new versioning system. 1.x.y was our old number system where x was the major release and y was the minor release. Our new system just chops off the vestigial ‘1.’ from the front. 1.3, 1.4, …, 1.x will just be minor releases of our current major release. **Please try your apps against 1.2.0RC2 ASAP and report problems** Highlights: - Improved Ruby 1.9 support (via --1.9) - Compiler now works - Almost all of the missing 1.9 methods have been added - New experimental --fast flag which does more aggressive optimizations - Large scale compiler and runtime cleanup and performance audit - Parsing is 3-6x faster now. - Preliminary android support (Ruboto) - Rails pathname issue fixed on Windows - Major bug triage since last release - 1052 revisions since 1.1.6 - 232 bugs fixed since 1.1.6 **Bugs fixed since RC1** key summary JRUBY-3455 1.2RC1 case - when clause evaluation does not short-circuit JRUBY-3456 rails command causes project to be created in the wrong directory JRUBY-3460 java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jruby.RubyObject building jruby-rack JRUBY-3461 Minor code conventions documentation typo JRUBY-3449 jruby-complete-1.2RC1.jar seems to break FFI JRUBY-3464 1.2.0 RC1 fails on Solaris x86\_64 JRUBY-3376 Need FFI platform files generated for x86\_64 linux JRUBY-3378 JRuby needs a new release of JFFI JRUBY-3466 NPE at org.jruby.runtime.callsite.RespondToCallSite.isCacheInvalid JRUBY-3467 bug with _one_ extra space on shebang with jruby-1.2rc1 JRUBY-2795 Process.setpriority failure in rubyspecs on Mac OS X, Soylatte JRUBY-3370 Need Constantine release for JRuby 1.2 JRUBY-3402 extract command still tries to run but fails; remove entirely or fix JRUBY-3457 ast script is not making it into the dist packages JRUBY-3447 Rails console gets stuck on “quit” JRUBY-3451 Random method undefined error after change in r.8491 JRUBY-3448 UNIXSocket file descriptor leak JRUBY-3424 File.expand\_path does not correctly follow directory changes from Dir.chdir JRUBY-3450 Problem with jitting ruby block in JRuby 1.2 RC1 JRUBY-3444 Multi-line string interpolation parses under MRI but gives a parse error on JRuby **Bugs fixed since 1.1.6** Key Summary JRUBY-414 Serialization of wrapped Java objects could be handled as user-marshalled data by Marshal JRUBY-551 JRUBY-549 bfts test\_file\_test failures JRUBY-750 defineAlias reports original name and not aliased one in stack traces JRUBY-852 jirb exits on ESC followed by any arrow key followed by return JRUBY-1079 IO.sysopen not defined JRUBY-1201 TCPSocket.new(dest\_adrr, dest\_port, src\_addr, src\_port) missing from JRuby JRUBY-1235 DRb hangs when transferring Ruby objects created in Java JRUBY-1401 Pathname#realpath fails for Windows drive letters JRUBY-1470 FileTest methods only work with string arguments JRUBY-1555 DST bug in second form of Time.local JRUBY-1576 multi-byte character encoding probrem JRUBY-1606 File.expand\_path does not work as expected JRUBY-1639 Exception when stopping WEBrick running the new rails application JRUBY-1803 Support Ruby 1.9 M17N strings JRUBY-1853 define\_method methods do not display the correct stack trace, may not be using frame safely JRUBY-1854 def is almost 3x slower in JRuby JRUBY-1855 EOF handling in case of reading program from standard input JRUBY-1872 next statement should return the argument passed, not nil JRUBY-1884 handling of file close while reading differs from mri JRUBY-1950 -i flag not supported JRUBY-2003 rexml pretty printing wrap() error JRUBY-2040 new samples/jnlp dir: includes both unsigned and signed examples that work in Java 1.5 and 1.6 JRUBY-2108 IOWaitLibrary ready? returns nil when ready JRUBY-2120 Wrong stacktraces from exceptions about wrong number of arguments JRUBY-2131 Select with nil arrays should throw an exception JRUBY-2139 jruby.compile.frameless=true cause “Superclass method ‘initialize’ disabled.” JRUBY-2168 test\_io (test\_copy\_dev\_null) fails under WinXP JRUBY-2170 Very unverbose message when problem with native library exists JRUBY-2174 Method#to\_proc.call invocations much slower than normal Method#call invocations JRUBY-2180 break performance is slower than MRI, sometimes slower than interpreted JRUBY-2211 SNMP Requests does not timeout properly JRUBY-2252 Kernel#exec should not raise SystemExit JRUBY-2262 Java toString() mapping to invoke(… to\_s …).toString() doesn JRUBY-2264 Include Nailgun in release binary packages JRUBY-2285 Regression: rubyspec run with -V option breaks JRuby JRUBY-2288 UDP locking problems when receiving from multiple senders on same port JRUBY-2296 convertToRuby does not work if to\_s does not return a String (but for example nil) JRUBY-2305 File output cuts off at a certain point? JRUBY-2307 DRb from MRI server to JRuby client fails with long messages JRUBY-2326 Invalid cast during parsing of recursive.rb in facelets-2.3.0 (org.jruby.ast.YieldNode cannot be cast to org.jruby.ast.BlockAcceptingNode) JRUBY-2328 Overriding require causes eval to give wrong **FILE** in certain circumstances JRUBY-2333 usage of unexistant variable in REXML::SourceFactory JRUBY-2346 Nailgun does not compile under HP-UX JRUBY-2353 Process.kill breaks up JRuby, while works in MRI on Windows JRUBY-2369 ‘ant spec’ failures on on MacOS JRUBY-2389 java.util.ConcurrentModificationException JRUBY-2410 Multiple assignment could be made faster by not returning unused array JRUBY-2424 running with -rprofile with multithreaded test causes NPE JRUBY-2426 JRuby trunk does not build with IBM JVM 1.5 JRUBY-2435 Aliasing eval and other “special” methods should display a warning JRUBY-2455 “jruby” script failed to find JRUBY\_HOME leads to class not found JRUBY-2484 unicode symbol not supported as in MRI JRUBY-2504 JAR URLs are inconsistently supported by APIs that access the filesystem JRUBY-2506 Marshal/IO.eof bug JRUBY-2518 Dir[“some glob”] doesn’t work for files inside a jar JRUBY-2521 Compilation Warning for Sun proprietary API using JRUBY-2522 Can not execute JRuby 1.1.1 “ant test” with IBM JDK JRUBY-2542 DATA.flock causes ClassCastException JRUBY-2545 Recursively locking on a mutex results in deadlock JRUBY-2548 JRuby conversion of String to Java String is arcane JRUBY-2557 NPE when yielding method JRUBY-2603 Couple of new rubyspec failures for URI library JRUBY-2655 TCPSocket.new(‘localhost’, 2001) connects on the wrong interface JRUBY-2661 specs hang under Apple Java 5 JRUBY-2672 BasicSocket#close\_read and #close\_write not working JRUBY-2675 jirb + jline do not work in cygwin JRUBY-2699 If user’s PATH contains ‘.’ and ‘jruby’ resolves to ‘./jruby’, JRUBY\_HOME is incorrectly set to ‘.’, leading to ‘NoClassDefFoundError’ JRUBY-2727 ActiveScaffold 1.1.1 fails with JRuby 1.1.2, probable path problem JRUBY-2732 org.jruby.util.RubyInputStream is unused JRUBY-2757 Compiled argument processing and arity checking are too large, too much bytecode JRUBY-2759 Time Zone “MET” maps to Asia/Tehran JRUBY-2761 Thread#wakeup fails when sleep is called with a parameter JRUBY-2772 Zlib::Deflate doesn’t appear to deflate JRUBY-2782 “No such file or directory (IOError)” when JAR file named in java.class.path but not active filesystem JRUBY-2788 Make Time.now monotonically increasing JRUBY-2794 Failure in String#crypt specs, Mac OS X, Soylatte JRUBY-2796 Missing constant in Process::Constants on Mac OS X (darwin) JRUBY-2797 File.expand\_path rubyspec failure on Mac OS X, Soylatte JRUBY-2802 JRuby wrapped Java objects formerly exposed readers for non-public fields JRUBY-2804 IO.popen of ‘yes’ process hangs on close JRUBY-2815 System triggered from inside of tracing behaves oddly JRUBY-2817 File.chown works with 64bit JDK, but raises NotImplementedError on 32 bit JDK JRUBY-2820 Most Etc methods behave diferently on Windows under x32 and x64 JVMs JRUBY-2826 Array#pack(‘w’) is broken (exceptions and wrong results) JRUBY-2830 String#unpack with ‘w’ is completely unimplemented JRUBY-2845 -S switch breaks if you have directory in pwd matching name of file in bin/PATH JRUBY-2846 gem generate\_index broken JRUBY-2849 CCE using proc{} in AR callbacks JRUBY-2855 Classpath search order is not respected by require when classpath includes both jars and directories JRUBY-2858 test\_file.rb::test\_opening\_readonly\_file\_for\_write\_raises\_eacces() fails with “IOError: Permission denied” on FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 + java 1.6.0\_07 JRUBY-2861 Cannot call super inside a method that overrides a protected method on Java base class JRUBY-2868 ThreadService.getRubyThreadFromThread supports only one non-rubynative thread at a time. JRUBY-2896 jruby -S picks up script from local directory JRUBY-2898 Exception trying to use BSF (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/bsf/util/BSFEngineImp) JRUBY-2901 JRuby does not support options in shebang line JRUBY-2917 Missing peephole optimizations in parser, compiler JRUBY-2921 Newly overridden methods are not called if the old superclass method has already been called JRUBY-2933 Ruby runtimes are pinned to memory due to ChannelStream JRUBY-2941 popen IO lockup with multiple threads JRUBY-2950 Net::IMAP#authenticate stalls / blocks in recent versions of JRuby JRUBY-2951 repeated popen call may throw NULL pointer exception JRUBY-2970 Timeout.rb is not working in special cases (Thread may block whole application). JRUBY-2974 multi-byte exception message turned into garbled characters when Java Exception nested NativeException. JRUBY-2979 File#getc fails on illegal seek when reading from /dev/ttyS0 on Linux JRUBY-2981 alias\_method\_chain pattern is extremely show on jruby JRUBY-2982 Unicode regular expressions by UTF-8 don’t work JRUBY-2988 jirb does not echo characters to the terminal after suspend and resume in the shell JRUBY-2997 Dir[] results in NPE depending on permissions JRUBY-2999 Regression: Inheriting method with same name from two Java interfaces causes Java classloader error JRUBY-3000 integration issues with Java classes containing inner classes JRUBY-3003 ArrayStoreException in compiler when calling Array.fill JRUBY-3005 Stomp gem hangs in Stomp::Client#subscribe JRUBY-3007 Message method value of Exception is missing in Java when exception raised in ruby JRUBY-3011 java classes with non-public constructors are incorrectly instantiated JRUBY-3017 DRb “premature header” error on JRuby client JRUBY-3035 Get Rails tests running in a CI server somewhere before 1.1.6 release, to ensure no future breakages JRUBY-3038 Unable to insert YAML into t.text field (behavior different from Ruby 1.8.6) JRUBY-3054 Thread#status is “run” when thread is blocking on condition variable JRUBY-3055 permission javax.management.MBeanServerPermission “createMBeanServer”; JRUBY-3061 NKF(unsupported Q encode stream) JRUBY-3065 New public LoadService#findFileToLoad method JRUBY-3071 Illegal seek error trying to read() from pipe JRUBY-3073 JRuby script engine does not load on IBM JDK JRUBY-3076 RubyUDPSocket.send tries to do inet address lookup, pauses too long for inet6 failure JRUBY-3077 Update ruby\_test tests and incorporate changes into build JRUBY-3085 Add constant caching for Colon2 and Colon3 (specific module and Object cases) JRUBY-3088 “RStone” port of PyStone is slower on JRuby than 1.9 JRUBY-3089 Digest::Base stores in memory all bytes passed to the digest, causing OutOfMemoryError JRUBY-3103 Compiler closures use two different binding mechanisms, need better construction and caching logic JRUBY-3109 Update stdlib to an appropriate 1.8.6 patchlevel JRUBY-3116 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in tmail JRUBY-3120 Regression: error serializing array of objects with custom to\_yaml def to yaml JRUBY-3125 Some Socket constants not supported. JRUBY-3127 Inconsistent DynamicScope instances in evalScriptlet JRUBY-3128 Different jruby behaviour that ruby 1.8.6/1.8.7/1.9 when running file that is named as one of required file. JRUBY-3142 Dir.pwd correctly displays dirs with unicode characters in them JRUBY-3146 Time#\_dump RubySpec failures JRUBY-3147 Time#\_load RubySpec failures JRUBY-3148 Array#fill spec failures JRUBY-3152 Process.times returns invalid values JRUBY-3158 Wrong ruby methods called on object of same class from Java code. JRUBY-3160 REXML returns error for add\_attribute JRUBY-3174 FFI MemoryPointer#get\_string(0, x) gets confused by null byte in the buffer JRUBY-3175 Cloning java byte array returns incorrect object JRUBY-3177 ConcurrentModificationException JRUBY-3178 http spec tests fail when webrick starts on address 0.0.0.0 JRUBY-3179 JRuby can’t handle do/end blocks within String-inlined expressions JRUBY-3180 Class in default package can’t be reopened under Java namespace JRUBY-3187 JRuby command line scripts do not work with spaces in the path JRUBY-3190 method `module\_eval’ for main:Object should be undefined? JRUBY-3204 IO.read and IO.readlines do not take a block JRUBY-3207 super error message is inaccurate when superclass doesn’t implement method. JRUBY-3208 ant task api-docs runs out of memory, patch included JRUBY-3211 builder library is slower in JRuby than in MRI JRUBY-3214 load and require don’t work correctly for .class files JRUBY-3217 Memory Leak with Adopted Threads JRUBY-3218 Import is sometimes confused by unquoted class name JRUBY-3221 Rubinius -bad instanceof tests in RubiniusMachine for attempt at fast path evaluation JRUBY-3224 Array#to\_java with java object reference doesn’t carry over object identity JRUBY-3226 Including more than one java interface stops Test::Unit execution JRUBY-3232 Zlib::GzipReader.each\_line yields compressed data JRUBY-3233 JRuby with Rails 2.2.2 unable to instantiate a java class JRUBY-3234 Difference in require behaviour with MRI with “.rb” suffix JRUBY-3238 Jruby 1.1.7 still leaking weakreferences JRUBY-3242 Performance degradation on write operations JRUBY-3244 [PATCH] Support atime updates via utime JRUBY-3248 jruby can’t load file produced with jrubyc JRUBY-3250 test\_java\_pkcs7.rb - Problem coercing Bignum into class java.math.BigInteger JRUBY-3251 ConcurrencyError bug when installing Merb on JRuby JRUBY-3253 Lack of default jruby.home in embedded usage causes NPE JRUBY-3254 Make JRuby’s Time#local behave more like MRI JRUBY-3255 jruby -S script/server fails in Rails application JRUBY-3257 RaiseException#printStrackTrace doesn’t deal well with nil messages JRUBY-3262 JRuby 1.1.6 regression: ClassFormatError if Ruby superclass of Ruby class implements super-interface of Java interface JRUBY-3267 patch attached to update eclipse .classpath to refer to bytelist-1.0.1.jar JRUBY-3269 SystemStackError with YAML.dump JRUBY-3270 using activerecord ‘to\_xml’ method crashes JRuby (and debugger) JRUBY-3274 Many new Array#pack failures in updated RubySpecs JRUBY-3275 New ARGF spec failures JRUBY-3276 New IO#readpartial and IO#seek spec failures JRUBY-3277 Constant lookup should omit topmost lexical scope; not bail out on first Object-hosting lexical scope JRUBY-3280 patch attached to update eclipse .classpath to add new jars in build\_lib/ JRUBY-3287 Add public RubyInstanceConfig#setCompatVersion JRUBY-3289 ArgumentError: dump format error() when unmarshalling Rails session and EOFError when unmarshalling hash with containing value of type ActionController::Flash::FlashHash JRUBY-3290 Float range to restrictive in FFI code JRUBY-3296 Etc.getpwuid should raise TypeError if invalid type JRUBY-3298 Kernel.srand calls #to\_i on number JRUBY-3303 [1.9] splat of array at front of assignment broken (same for other grammatical constructs) JRUBY-3305 Fixnums & Floats should be coerced to the narrowest java.lang.Number when passed to a java method that expects Object JRUBY-3307 tempfile.rb sucks in JRuby JRUBY-3308 Deadlock between RubyModule.includeModule() and RubyClass.invalidateCacheDescendants() JRUBY-3310 Race condition in JRuby when Active Support is overriding Kernel.require JRUBY-3314 Pull in final 1.9.1 stdlib when released JRUBY-3316 Group expression class path fails to parse JRUBY-3317 require “tempfile”; Dir.tmpdir fails JRUBY-3318 If ‘jruby’ executable is a relative symlink, JRuby won’t start JRUBY-3324 Error in string encoding conversion JRUBY-3328 Incorrect behavior for case/when when true or false are the first conditions JRUBY-3329 Major divergence in threading behaviour between Ruby 1.8.6 and JRuby 1.1.6 JRUBY-3331 to\_f near Float::MAX JRUBY-3332 ConcurrentModificationException In Application Startup JRUBY-3339 java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in RubyArray.java JRUBY-3340 String#unpack(‘m’) fails with ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException JRUBY-3351 Tempfile defaults to a directory that does not exist on Windows JRUBY-3360 Pure-Java tempfile does not use a #make\_tmpname callback JRUBY-3361 Compiled case/when blows up with arrays as when clauses JRUBY-3362 attr\_accessor, attr\_reader, attr\_writer, and attr not obeying visibility JRUBY-3363 OutOfMemoryError when using soap4r on jruby 1.1.6 JRUBY-3365 Objects with custom to\_yaml methods break collection to\_yaml JRUBY-3366 Faulty marshalling error blows up in ActiveSupport JRUBY-3367 Dir.glob processes nested braces incorrectly JRUBY-3372 [PATCH] FFI: passing nil for a declared string parameter blows up JRUBY-3373 [PATCH] FFI: assigning Struct to a pointer fails JRUBY-3374 [PATCH] FFI::ManagedStruct instantiated objects are of the wrong class JRUBY-3375 ‘attr’ implementation is incompatible with MRI 1.9.1 behavior JRUBY-3377 Need FFI platform files generated for x86\_64 darwin JRUBY-3386 Array#eql? rubyspec failure JRUBY-3387 Array#== rubyspec failure JRUBY-3390 RubySpec: Numeric#coerce calls #to\_f to convert other if self responds to #to\_f JRUBY-3392 RubySpec: Thread.stop resets Thread.critical to false JRUBY-3397 defined? CONST is not following proper constant lookup rules JRUBY-3398 Attributes defined from Java tried to use current frame for visibility JRUBY-3405 popen breaks input channel for IRB JRUBY-3407 FFI Stack Level Too Deep on Library.send(:method, args) JRUBY-3408 FFI non-string args for methods are turned into strings anyway JRUBY-3410 Add -y flag to debug the parser JRUBY-3411 JRuby does not build or run on AIX due to exceptions in org.jruby.ext.ffi.Platform JRUBY-3420 [PATCH] Added basic\_word\_break\_characters method to Readline JRUBY-3432 String#hash needs to be made encoding-aware JRUBY-3436 [PATCH] FFI should allow passing nil as a callback parameter JRUBY-3437 pid-returning methods should make a best effort to get a real pid JRUBY-3439 super in top level go boom ---
**Author:** ![Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thomas_E)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc2-released/162223/2 "2009-03-07T16:09:02Z")
On Mar 6, 2009, at 5:35 PM, Thomas E. wrote: > system. 1.x.y was our old number system where x was the major > > - Improved Ruby 1.9 support (via --1.9) > - 232 bugs fixed since 1.1.6 > JRUBY-3461 Minor code conventions documentation typo > JRUBY-3402 extract command still tries to run but fails; remove > entirely or fix > JRUBY-3457 ast script is not making it into the dist packages > JRUBY-3447 Rails console gets stuck on “quit” > JRUBY-3451 Random method undefined error after change in r.8491 > JRUBY-3448 UNIXSocket file descriptor leak > JRUBY-3424 File.expand\_path does not correctly follow directory > changes from Dir.chdir > JRUBY-3450 Problem with jitting ruby block in JRuby 1.2 RC1 > JRUBY-3444 Multi-line string interpolation parses under MRI but > gives a parse error on JRuby I’m hurt, JRUBY-3237 isn’t on there and I fixed that a couple days ago ;). Either way, hooray! -Zac ---
**Author:** ![Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thomas_E)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 12:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc2-released/162223/3 "2009-03-07T12:25:14Z")
Please be careful: I have a slow machine, if you continue your release frequency increase I will not have enough time to execute the ant task between two releases ;). Amazing Robert ---
**Author:** ![Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thomas_E)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc2-released/162223/4 "2009-03-08T00:56:00Z")
Zachary Brown wrote: > I’m hurt, JRUBY-3237 isn’t on there and I fixed that a couple days ago ;). Gotta draw the line somewhere 🙂 It will certainly be in JRuby 1.3. - Charlie ---
**Author:** ![Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thomas_E)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc2-released/162223/5 "2009-03-08T02:09:42Z")
On Mar 7, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Charles Oliver N. wrote: > Zachary Brown wrote: > > > I’m hurt, JRUBY-3237 isn’t on there and I fixed that a couple days > > ago ;). > > Gotta draw the line somewhere 🙂 It will certainly be in JRuby 1.3. > > - Charlie Haha, I know. We need a good test for that which will be fun to figure out :-/. -Zac ---
**Author:** ![Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thomas_E)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc2-released/162223/6 "2009-03-16T20:03:59Z")
Ollivier R. wrote: > In article [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid), > Thomas E. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > **Bugs fixed since RC1** > > Is there anyone who would have a look at JRUBY-3032 please? JRUBY-3032 turned out to be a larger chore than we wanted to swallow in 1.2. We essentially need to examine all places we’re passing strings to/from the system, to/from Java APIs, or to/from native calls, and make sure we’re using the appropriate encoding everywhere. Currently we usually assume utf-8, and even then we’re not consistently encoding and decoding strings as utf-8 when calling APIs. The best way to help would be to contribute tests or specs (rubyspecs would be great) for Ruby APIs working with unicode directory and file names. - Charlie ---
**Author:** ![Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Thomas\_E](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thomas_E)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jruby-1-2-0rc2-released/162223/7 "2009-03-16T17:05:58Z")
In article [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid), Thomas E. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > **Bugs fixed since RC1** Is there anyone who would have a look at JRUBY-3032 please?