Aaah, got it. Thanks for the hint. The encoding of the file is ASCII-8BIT
and ruby 1.9 tries to convert it to UTF-8. Funny this error doesn't occur
when using ruby 1.8 :-(

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:11 AM, James Healy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Are you trying to write a string into a file or IO stream by any chance?
>
> James
>
> On 9 March 2011 00:05, Joshua Partogi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am getting this error from ruby 1.9: \xFF" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8
> >
> > Does anybody know or have seen that error before and what I should be
> > looking into in order to fix the problem?
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Joshua.
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