From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T22:58:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Umlauts in source code

Hi,

In message "Re: Umlauts in source code"
    on Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:45:49 +0900, Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> writes:

|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').

I think the difference is the default KCODE value in the compile time
configuration.  One needs to set -Kn when he wants to put iso-8859
letters.  The simple

  #! /usr/bin/ruby -Kn

at the beginning of a file will do.

							matz.