Gem update: unable to convert “\xE7” to UTF-8 in conversion from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 to US-ASCII

Question

just ran gem update on a light use server machine that hadn\'t been updated in a while... and am getting loads of \'unable to convert \"\\x??\" to UTF-8 in conv

Answer 1

The combination of Daniel and werm's answers worked for me, once I also unset LC_ALL. I ended up with this:

export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
unset LC_ALL