Daniel P. Clark

> Something I've noticed: if I try to require another lib such as zlib Did you make sure the flags you passed in were the absolute last item printed from...

No you're right. I was mistaken. `LIBS` comes out to `-lpthread -lgmp -ldl -lcrypt -lm` on my machine.

The test in question is ```ruby it "returns the basename with the same encoding as the original" do basename = File.basename('C:/Users/Scuby Pagrubý'.encode(Encoding::Windows_1250)) basename.should == 'Scuby Pagrubý'.encode(Encoding::Windows_1250) basename.encoding.should == Encoding::Windows_1250 end...

Thanks @glebm . Since I've rewritten this project in ruru the point of this issue is now to update the capabilities of RString in ruru. New error on TravisCI: ```...

I've been thinking looking at FFI and Fiddle may give insight for where to integrate encoding from Ruby's C code.

## Good News With the addition of encoding support in Rutie and the `CodepointIterator` we can move forward more easily with adding encoding support. Many of the algorithms will need...

I believe it may be. At the time I created this I think it was given that just because I was unsure of future compatibility as Rails 6 wasn't out...

Feel free. :grinning:

Can I have some clarification on what exactly is being proposed to be added and improved upon? Is it some of the written `crates/` in the link provided above? I'm...

@Hywan excellent! Yes I like those. Feel free to add them to this project.