From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-01-11T13:25:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21260] Re: Do I need a special build arg to get irb to accept utf characters on OSX

Dave Thomas wrote:
> I'm seeing very strange behavior at the irb prompt with ruby 1.9.1 
> (2009-01-06 patchlevel-5000 trunk 21356) [i386-darwin9.6.0]
> 
> I can enter some accented characters (such as ��), but not other 
> characters (such as ���, ��� and ���). Some of those other characters echo as 
> ?, while others are ignored.
> 
> If I disable readline, then everything works OK.

We have the same problem with JRuby and Readline.

[headius @ 247:~/projects/jruby]
��� jirb
irb(main):001:0> puts '?'
��
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> quit
[headius @ 247:~/projects/jruby]
��� jirb --noreadline
irb(main):001:0> puts '��'
��
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> quit

Glad to hear this is affecting 1.9 as well (well, not really *glad* per 
se) since it means it's probably a bug in either readline itself or 
something goofy about OS X terminal. I'd love to know what's causing it 
though.

- Charlie