The encoding that Notepad++ just calls “ANSI”, does anyone know what to call it for Ruby?

Question

I have a bunch of .txt\'s that Notepad++ says (in its drop-down \"Encoding\" menu) are \"ANSI\".

They have German characters in them, [äöüß], which display fine in N

Answer 1

I found the answer to this question on the Notepad++ Forum, answered in 2010 by CChris who seems to be authoritative.

Question: Encoding ANSI?

Answer:

That will be the system code page for your computer (code page 0).

More Info:

Show your current code page.

>help chcp
Displays or sets the active code page number.

CHCP [nnn]

  nnn   Specifies a code page number.

Type CHCP without a parameter to display the active code page number.

>chcp
Active code page: 437

Code Page Identifiers

Identifier  .NET Name  Additional information
437         IBM437     OEM United States