From: Henrik Horneber <ryco@...>
Date: 2004-11-26T07:28:17+09:00
Subject: Re: No umlauts in irb?

Julius Plenz wrote:

> * Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> [2004-11-25]:
> 
>>can someone tell me what i must do that irb accepts german Alt-Gr
>>keys on WinXP. I can't type [] {}
> 
> 
> I also have a question related to german keyboards_ Why does irb
> terminate without any further message when I include some german
> umlauts (�������) which are _not_ in quotes?
> 
> e/www/plenz,0% irb
> 
>>>"�"
> 
> => "\344"
> 
>>>�
> 
> [terminates]
> 
> Julius

Same problem here on Win2K, even though I haven't noticed it before 
(thanks Julius). Maybe one should just use english identifiers? (not an 
extremely bad idea anyway IMHO). Just to clarify things, I have readline 
more or less working except for the occasional segfault, and I can type 
[] etc with Alt+Gr just fine. Irb does not terminate immediately after 
entering an Umlaut, only after pressing return.

D:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\empinator.HAMMING>irb
irb(main):001:0> a
NameError: undefined local variable or method `a' for main:Object
         from (irb):1
irb(main):002:0> "�"
=> "\204"
irb(main):003:0> �

D:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\empinator.HAMMING>

best regards,
Henrik