chef

https://github.com/opscode/chef

Ruby

A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.

Win32::Registry#export_string

::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.

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Edit

git clone [email protected]:opscode/chef.git

cd chef

open lib/chef/monkey_patches/win32/registry.rb

Contribute

# Make a new branch

git checkout -b -your-name--update-docs-Win32--Registry-export_string-for-pr

# Commit to git

git add lib/chef/monkey_patches/win32/registry.rbgit commit -m "better docs for Win32::Registry#export_string"

# Open pull request

gem install hub # on a mac you can `brew install hub`

hub fork

git push <your name> -your-name--update-docs-Win32--Registry-export_string-for-pr

hub pull-request

# Celebrate!