UPDATE: Running chcp 65001 seems to work just as well, rather than messing with the environment.
I ran in to an issue when trying to set up Jekyll for this site on my Windows PC:
D:\source\belfry_images\belfryimages.github.com>jekyll serve --watch
Configuration file: D:/source/belfry_images/belfryimages.github.com/_config.yml
Source: D:/source/belfry_images/belfryimages.github.com
Destination: D:/source/belfry_images/belfryimages.github.com/_site
Generating... ←[31m Liquid Exception: incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and CP850 in default.html←[0m
error: incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and CP850. Use --trace to view backtrace
The important thing here is the incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and CP850. I tried various things like blowing away the site and resaving the files using UTF-8 to no avail. I eventually found a blog post (in French) that gives an answer (translated by Google):
These errors can have an impact on the blog posting. And in some cases, it may prevent the proper functioning of Jekyll. There is a workaround to this problem. Simply run the following commands before starting the Jekyll server:
set LC_ALL = en_US.UTF-8
set LANG = en_US.UTF-8
This command is used to tell Windows that the encoding used is UTF-8. If you raise Jekyll after handling these errurs are gone.
Add the LC_ALL and LANG settings to System -> System Properties -> Environment Variables (under either User variables or System variables) and restart your shell.
Wooo. Go Jekyll.