cygwinでgemが失敗

症状

Shell

$ gem update Updating installed gems ERROR: While executing gem .. (ArgumentError) invalid byte sequence in UTF-8

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$ gem update Updating installed gems ERROR:  While executing gem .. (ArgumentError)     invalid byte sequence in UTF-8

回避策

Shell

$ LANG=C.BINARY gem update

1	$ LANG=C.BINARY gem update

Shell

$ LANG=C.BINARY gem install thread

1	$ LANG=C.BINARY gem install thread