From: Benny <linux@...>
Date: 2004-06-05T01:53:38+09:00
Subject: utf8 strings and inspect

hi,

if I have an utf8-string

        utf8str = "���"

then Object#inspect gives me

        utf8str.inspect #=> "\303\244\303\266\303\274"

but String#to_s gives me

        utf8str.to_s #=> "���"

even if the documentation says that Object#inspect uses .to_s to convert an
object to a string.

even funnier, in the irb (I guess that is, because the irb uses
Object#inspect for the output)

irb(main):010:0>utf8str.to_s 
=> "\303\244\303\266\303\274"
irb(main):010:0>utf8str.inspect
=> "\"\\303\\244\\303\\266\\303\\274\""

so how can I change Object#inspect to use String#to_s ?

any ideas?


benny