From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-01-03T12:07:16-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01029] Re: Is this a bug?

gotoken@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp (GOTO Kentaro) writes:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:01026] Is this a bug?"
>     on 00/01/03, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:
> 
> >       � = 1 
> >       print �, "\n"
> >
> >(where the variable is an 'a' with a grave accent), I get
> 
> Well, what charactor coding system did you used?  Is that iso-8859-1?

In the email, 8859-1. In the environment where I ran the Ruby script,
the locale was POSIX.

There seems to be some effect where an accented character causes Ruby
to eat the next character. I've found that this fails:

     print �, "\n"

But this works OK:

     print � , "\n"

Regards

Dave



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