Incompatible character encoding error

[avdv]

[...]/colorls/core.rb:86:in `join': incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT (Encoding::CompatibilityError)

I am not fluent in ruby I am more in shell script I understand the probleme is probably the «é» character in /home/luxcium/Téléchargements

Output:

/home/luxcium/Téléchargements
Traceback (most recent call last):
        12: from /home/luxcium/bin/colorls:23:in `<main>'
        11: from /home/luxcium/bin/colorls:23:in `load'
        10: from /home/luxcium/.gem/ruby/gems/colorls-1.4.1/exe/colorls:26:in `<top (required)>'
         9: from /home/luxcium/.gem/ruby/gems/colorls-1.4.1/lib/colorls/flags.rb:43:in `process'
         8: from /home/luxcium/.gem/ruby/gems/colorls-1.4.1/lib/colorls/flags.rb:43:in `each_with_index'
         7: from /home/luxcium/.gem/ruby/gems/colorls-1.4.1/lib/colorls/flags.rb:43:in `each'
         6: from /home/luxcium/.gem/ruby/gems/colorls-1.4.1/lib/colorls/flags.rb:48:in `block in process'
         5: from /home/luxcium/.gem/ruby/gems/colorls-1.4.1/lib/colorls/flags.rb:48:in `new'
         4: from /home/luxcium/.gem/ruby/gems/colorls-1.4.1/lib/colorls/core.rb:29:in `initialize'
         3: from /home/luxcium/.gem/ruby/gems/colorls-1.4.1/lib/colorls/core.rb:86:in `init_contents'
         2: from /home/luxcium/.gem/ruby/gems/colorls-1.4.1/lib/colorls/core.rb:86:in `map!'
         1: from /home/luxcium/.gem/ruby/gems/colorls-1.4.1/lib/colorls/core.rb:86:in `block in init_contents'
/home/luxcium/.gem/ruby/gems/colorls-1.4.1/lib/colorls/core.rb:86:in `join': incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT (Encoding::CompatibilityError)
/home/luxcium/Téléchargements
 

My shell function in ZSH:

    function ld() {
        (
            local mypath="${@:-$(pwd)}"
            echo ''
            builtin cd "${mypath}"
            pw
            colorls -lA --sd -d "${mypath}"
            pw
            echo "${mypath}"
        )
    }

My locale:

locale      
LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=fr_CA.UTF-8
LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=fr_CA.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=fr_CA.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_CA.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Originally posted by @Luxcium in #242 (comment)

[Luxcium]

Ho ok I guess this is what "opening my own issue would have looked like" I don't have the problem anymore but I don't remember what I did so let me get more information about my issue...

I use this ld command each and every day it's even part of my cd command

[simonbcn]

Same problem.

$ locale
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

$ ls Imágenes
Traceback (most recent call last):
12: from /usr/bin/colorls:23:in `<main>'
11: from /usr/bin/colorls:23:in `load'
10: from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/colorls-1.4.2/exe/colorls:26:in `<top (required)>'
9: from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/colorls-1.4.2/lib/colorls/flags.rb:43:in `process'
8: from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/colorls-1.4.2/lib/colorls/flags.rb:43:in `each_with_index'
7: from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/colorls-1.4.2/lib/colorls/flags.rb:43:in `each'
6: from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/colorls-1.4.2/lib/colorls/flags.rb:48:in `block in process'
5: from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/colorls-1.4.2/lib/colorls/flags.rb:48:in `new'
4: from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/colorls-1.4.2/lib/colorls/core.rb:29:in `initialize'
3: from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/colorls-1.4.2/lib/colorls/core.rb:86:in `init_contents'
2: from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/colorls-1.4.2/lib/colorls/core.rb:86:in `map!'
1: from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/colorls-1.4.2/lib/colorls/core.rb:86:in `block in init_contents'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/colorls-1.4.2/lib/colorls/core.rb:86:in `join': incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT (Encoding::CompatibilityError)

[avdv]

I already tried to reproduce this, but I could not. Is Imágenes a directory? What's the contents of it?

Note that I am AFC until next weekend...

[simonbcn]

I can reproduce this with this folder structure:

$ exa -T Imágenes 
Imágenes
└── Cámara