From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2004-06-20T17:53:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with German Umlauts (Umlaute)


Axel Friedrich wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when saving a file "myfile.rb" with RDE to disk, opening and saving
> it with another editor (NoteTab) and then opening it again with RDE,
> german umlauts (umlaute) are distroyed (there are funny characters).
> Any idea what could help?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Axel
>
> RDE 0.9.9.1
> Windows 98SE
> ruby 1.67, 1.81, 1.82 cygwin & mswin32
>

I can't offer a solution, but I see the problem.

In the character sets I've looked at, u-umlaut is stored as hex FC -
a very high value which may be in use by RDE internally as a control
character (haven't checked).

Someone else may be able to help further.


daz