# Win32console gem with cucumber - letter "a" is missing!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32console-gem-with-cucumber-letter-a-is-missing/179692>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 2, 2009, 3:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32console-gem-with-cucumber-letter-a-is-missing/179692 "2009-12-02T03:44:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![bzouchir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@bzouchir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bzouchir)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 3:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32console-gem-with-cucumber-letter-a-is-missing/179692/1 "2009-12-02T03:44:56Z")

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I was just trying to follow up Ryan B. tut on Railscasts about using  
cucumber

> **[\#155 Beginning with Cucumber - RailsCasts](http://railscasts.com/episodes/155-beginning-with-cucumber)**
>
> Short Ruby on Rails screencasts containing tips, tricks and tutorials. Great for both novice and experienced web developers.

All installed and runs great, except the letter “a” is missing from all  
words in the output!

This only happens in the Cucumber text output.

the gem I installed is:  
win32console-1.2.0-x86-mswin32-60

I am on Win XP sp3

Just to make sure it is the console, I removed the gem and ran  
“cucumber features” and same output without colors looks fine with no  
missing letters.

did that happen to anyone else?  
I still can’t figure out the problem and how to get it fixed!

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**Author:** ![bzouchir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@bzouchir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bzouchir)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32console-gem-with-cucumber-letter-a-is-missing/179692/2 "2009-12-02T03:49:59Z")

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Please find the screenshot attached.

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**Author:** ![bzouchir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@bzouchir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bzouchir)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32console-gem-with-cucumber-letter-a-is-missing/179692/3 "2009-12-02T14:17:28Z")

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Bachir El khoury wrote:

> I was just trying to follow up Ryan B. tut on Railscasts about using  
> cucumber  
> [#155 Beginning with Cucumber - RailsCasts](http://railscasts.com/episodes/155-beginning-with-cucumber)
> 
> All installed and runs great, except the letter “a” is missing from all  
> words in the output!

Type ‘chcp 1252’.  
Observe the magic. chcp stands for ‘change codepage’, I believe.

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**Author:** ![bzouchir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@bzouchir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bzouchir)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 6:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32console-gem-with-cucumber-letter-a-is-missing/179692/4 "2009-12-03T06:29:47Z")

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Magic indeed! thanks alot Aldric.

Aldric G. wrote:

> Type ‘chcp 1252’.  
> Observe the magic. chcp stands for ‘change codepage’, I believe.