From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-02-26T22:16:44+09:00
Subject: Gems running aground on multibyte char

Hi --

I'm doing lazy evaluation of this problem -- meaning, if anyone spots
an obvious reason/fix for it, that's cool, otherwise I will try to
track it further. I don't know whether it's platform-specific.

The problem is that in 1.9 (tested with 1.9.0-0 and today's trunk),
gem has trouble with the archive-tar-minitar gem, because it can't
deal with the accented 'a' in Fernandez.

Platform is Mac OS X Leopard, ruby 1.9.0 (2007-12-25 revision 14709)
[i686-darwin9.2.0].

Here's the output:

sh-3.2# gem install ruport
WARNING:
/usr/local/lib/ruby-1.9.0/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.0/specifications/archive-tar-minitar-0.5.1.gemspec:12:
invalid multibyte char
/usr/local/lib/ruby-1.9.0/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.0/specifications/archive-tar-minitar-0.5.1.gemspec:12:
syntax error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting keyword_end
...d heavily on Mauricio Fern?ndez's implementation in rpa-base...
...                               ^
/usr/local/lib/ruby-1.9.0/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.0/specifications/archive-tar-minitar-0.5.1.gemspec:12:
unterminated string meets end of file
/usr/local/lib/ruby-1.9.0/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.0/specifications/archive-tar-minitar-0.5.1.gemspec:12:
syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting keyword_end


David

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