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Workaround for unable to convert "\xCA" issue
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sh-3.2# export LC_CTYPE="utf-8"
sh-3.2# gem install nokogiri -v '1.6.5'
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed nokogiri-1.6.5
Parsing documentation for nokogiri-1.6.5
unable to convert "\xCA" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for lib/nokogiri/nokogiri.bundle, skipping
1 gem installed
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This will skip the generation of docs, and suppress the error:
sh-3.2# vim ~/.gemrc
install: --no-rdoc --no-ri
update: --no-rdoc --no-ri
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sh-3.2# gem install nokogiri -v '1.6.5' -f
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed nokogiri-1.6.5
1 gem installed
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jonnyijapan commented Mar 4, 2015

I got this on os x yosemite:

mjgmbp:workspace me$ sudo gem install nokogiri
Password:
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed nokogiri-1.6.6.2
Parsing documentation for nokogiri-1.6.6.2
unable to convert "\xCA" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for lib/nokogiri/nokogiri.bundle, skipping
1 gem installed
mjgmbp:workspace me$

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jaimeguzman commented Jun 30, 2015

Hi there, do you solve this ? I have the same error.

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