From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2009-03-03T00:49:30+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:22627] Re: [Bug #1238] invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) Hi, In message "Re: [ruby-core:22625] [Bug #1238] invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)" on Tue, 3 Mar 2009 00:41:30 +0900, Ivan Petrov writes: |script that working good earlier(1.8.7) breaks trying print "йцукен\n" (russian cyrillic simbols) |my OS Ubuntu, Ruby version 1.9.1-p0 You have to disclose your script, but you need to put "magic comment" # coding: utf-8 for example, to the top of your non-ASCII script. matz.