From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-06-17T13:11:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Changes Its Mind About Non-Word Characters

On Jun 16, 2007, at 2:41 PM, Vincent Isambart wrote:

> It is because the � and � characters are not in ISO-8859-1.

The characters were in UTF-8, which is why I asked iconv to convert  
them.  Don't take my word for it though, I gave you the source so you  
could double-check me.

> The ? character has the same code in both UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 as it
> is an ASCII character...

My text editor and terminal don't agree:

Firefly:~/Desktop$ cat saved_as_utf8.txt saved_as_latin1.txt
��
??
Firefly:~/Desktop$ ruby -e 'p ARGF.read' saved_as_utf8.txt  
saved_as_latin1.txt
"\302\253\302\273\n\253\273\n"

James Edward Gray II