From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-02-07T11:56:53+09:00
Subject: Re: STDIN encoding differs from default source file encoding

Hi,

In message "Re: STDIN encoding differs from default source file encoding"
    on Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:43:38 +0900, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> writes:

|Does that apply to strings containing characters > 127?
|
|irb(main):003:0> "\0x81"
|=> "\x00x81"
|irb(main):004:0> "\0x81".encoding
|=> #<Encoding:US-ASCII>
|irb(main):005:0>
|
|Should that be ASCII-8BIT? And is it a readline restriction that I  
|can't type a utf-8 character into irb?

You've typed "\0x81" i.e. \0, x, 8, 1, four characters instead of one.
If you type "\x81" you will get ASCII-8BIT.

							matz.