From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2004-05-19T22:39:33+09:00
Subject: Re: [bug] irb or xterm crash with UTF-8

[Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@adslhome.dk>, 2004-05-19 13.45 CEST]
> server> irb
> irb(main):001:0> $KCODE='U'
> => "U"
> irb(main):002:0> str = [0x70, 0x80, 0x90].pack('U*')
> => "p詑
> 
> Then it just hangs forever.. 

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> $KCODE='U'
=> "U"
irb(main):002:0> str = [0x70, 0x80, 0x90].pack('U*').unpack("C*")
=> [112, 194, 128, 194, 144]

I guess the last character is interpreted as a control character by your
xterm. Reading the xterm changelog, version 175 (one more than to have) has
an option to treat characters between 128 and 159 as printable and not
control.

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