From: "Adeodato Simó" <asp16@...>
Date: 2004-11-27T05:22:55+09:00
Subject: Re: No umlauts in irb? (was: irb and german keyboard problem)

* Julius Plenz [Thursday, November 25, 2004 22:59] {comp.lang.ruby}: 

> 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?

  I couldn't reproduce (*), and then I realized I have RUBYOPT=-Ku.
  unsetting RUBYOPT made irb behave as you describe.

    (*) the output being:

    >> �
    NameError: undefined local variable or method `�' for main:Object
            from (irb):1

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