From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2005-01-21T02:40:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Umlauts in source code

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, 20. Jan 2005, 22:58:05 +0900 schrieb Yukihiro Matsumoto:
> 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.

Ah, yes! As I noiticed in the meantime, SuSE sets $KCODE by
default to "UTF-8".

Bertram

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