From: Michael Lucas-Smith Date: 2001-07-05T10:36:13+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:17264] Re: [:->] babelfish Japanese => English attempt > >This fact is also true for input to the translation software. Since they >are totally different, you'll get garbage output if you couldn't find an >acceptable code for the software, or use any code converting tool. > Use UTF-8 Michael