Re: [MacRuby-devel] String performance (yet another)

 File.read("test.txt").force_encoding("UTF-16LE").split("\n")

This script returns an error (Encoding::CompatibilityError) even with declaring char code at the beginning or the encoding of the file being UTF-16LE.

MacRuby completely ignores the encoding of the file (it always reads source files as UTF-8). So you would probably have to do split("\n".encode("UTF-16LE"))