From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2006-02-02T06:47:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange print

Valerij KIR wrote:
> Hi all!
> I have some text in russian. Then I've print it with puts I saw
> beatiful text, but then use p operator text is
> "\353\317\314\314\305\304\326". How can I solve problem, because when
> using iconv the problem is same?

p uses String#inspect which I believe will always print something that can
be safely interpreted as a Ruby string on 7 bit ASCII.  You should use
puts instead of p - p is really rather a debugging / inspection untility
but not meant for normal program output (IMHO).

Kind regards

    robert