Also I've made two other fixes available:
* I've reset the threaded encoding. This is a big time saver,
especially when you need more codecs and have more than one core. It
was closed of because of mysterious errors by then introduced by the
0.17 bindings of ruby-gtk2. I cannot reproduce these errors anymore.
Any help confirming that the bug is squashed are highly welcomed. See
issue 221: http://code.google.com/p/rubyripper/issues/detail?id=221