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Asked: 2026-05-21T23:41:18+00:00

I recently upgraded to Ruby 1.9 and I can no longer compile anything with

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I recently upgraded to Ruby 1.9 and I can no longer compile anything with Sass.

I’ve seen solutions that state if I place

 @charset "utf-8";

at the top of my .sccs file, it will fix it. However I’m still getting an error. Here’s the full traceback

I’ve also tried removing any non-ascii characters from my CSS file, creating a new one, etc. It just won’t compile. Any tips?

Traceback:

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/home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/util.rb:496:in `encode’: transcoding not supported (from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8) (ArgumentError)

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/util.rb:496:in _enc'
from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/util.rb:515:inrescue in block (1 levels) in ‘

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/util.rb:508:in `block (1 levels) in ‘

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/util.rb:472:in `yield’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/util.rb:472:in `default’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/util.rb:472:in `block in check_sass_encoding’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/util.rb:471:in `each’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/util.rb:471:in `find’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/util.rb:471:in `check_sass_encoding’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/engine.rb:349:in `check_encoding!’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/engine.rb:316:in `_to_tree’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/engine.rb:291:in `_render’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/engine.rb:238:in `render’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/plugin/compiler.rb:319:in `update_stylesheet’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/plugin/compiler.rb:169:in `block in update_stylesheets’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/plugin/compiler.rb:167:in `each’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/plugin/compiler.rb:167:in `update_stylesheets’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/plugin/compiler.rb:214:in `watch’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/plugin.rb:111:in `method_missing’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/exec.rb:408:in `watch_or_update’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/exec.rb:294:in `process_result’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/exec.rb:41:in `parse’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/lib/sass/exec.rb:21:in `parse!’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/gems/sass-3.1.1/bin/sass:8:in `’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/bin/sass:19:in `load’

from /home/webdev/.gem/repository/bin/sass:19:in `’

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t know exactly the core of the issue, but it seems there were some problems with Ruby 1.9.0 (the version available on apt for this Ubuntu box) and encoding.

    To solve the issue, I used https://rvm.io which is a helper to download and compile Ruby from Git, giving me the latest version. After running this, sass compiles fine and everything is swell.

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