I use netbeans as development IDE and runs the application from cmd but have problems to display ISO 8859-1 characters like åäö correct in both cmd window and when I run the application from netbeans

Question: What is best practice to set it up

Right now I do

@output.puts indent + "V" + 132.chr + "lkommen till Ruby Camping!"

to get ä

My environment

>chcp 65001

Active code page: 65001

>ruby main.rb

Source encoding: <Encoding:US-ASCII>
Default external: #<Encoding:UTF-8>
Default internal: nil
Locale charmap: "CP65001"

where I have in the code

def self.printEncoding
    puts "Source encoding: #{__ENCODING__.inspect}" if defined? __ENCODING__
    if defined? Environment::Encoding
      puts "Default external: #{Encoding.default_external.inspect}"
      puts "Default internal: #{Encoding.default_internal.inspect}"
      puts "Locale charmap: #{ Encoding.locale_charmap.inspect}"
    end
    puts "LANG environment variable: #{ENV['LANG'].inspect}" unless ENV['LANG'].nil?
  end

>ruby -v ruby 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [i386-mingw32]