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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/chef/monkey_patches/win32/registry.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/chef/monkey_patches/win32/registry.rb | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/chef/monkey_patches/win32/registry.rb b/lib/chef/monkey_patches/win32/registry.rb index 1c1a103432..719a4d46a1 100644 --- a/lib/chef/monkey_patches/win32/registry.rb +++ b/lib/chef/monkey_patches/win32/registry.rb @@ -22,6 +22,17 @@ require "win32/registry" module Win32 class Registry + # ::Win32::Registry#export_string is used when enumerating child + # keys and values and re encodes a UTF-16LE to the local codepage. + # This can result in encoding incompatibilities if the native codepage + # does not support the characters in the registry. There is an open bug + # in ruby at https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11410. Rather than converting + # the UTF-16LE originally returned by the win32 api, we encode to UTF-8 + # which will likely not result in any conversion error. + def export_string(str, enc = Encoding.default_internal || 'utf-8') + str.encode(enc) + end + module API extend Chef::ReservedNames::Win32::API::Registry |