From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T20:45:49+09:00
Subject: Umlauts in source code

Hi,

on my Debian Linux this problem doesn't appear. Yet, it is
reported to me that on SuSE Linux, the standard Ruby
installation has problems with reading in source files that
contain umlauts (characters >= '\x80').

A string '�' produces a syntax error, a regexp /�/ will
report a "premature end" of the regexp.

I made experiments with $KCODE but I didn't achieve to
reproduce the reported misbehaviour.

I could enter '\xfc' everywhere I need a '�' but that is
annoying.

What do I have to do to solve this correctly?

Thanks in advance,

Bertram

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Bertram Scharpf
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