From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2004-11-26T08:52:57+09:00
Subject: Re: No umlauts in irb?

Henrik Horneber ha scritto:
>> 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?
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> Same problem here on Win2K, even though I haven't noticed it before 
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same is valid with the italian's accented letters..
C:\Documents and Settings\gabriele>irb
irb(main):001:0> �
C:\Documents and Settings\gabriele>

There was some talk about this some time ago, maybe looking in the 
archive will find answer (wich I can't remember :/ )