From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-07T03:55:49+09:00
Subject: Re: tabs and parse errors with Ruby 1.8.4 and Windows

On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, David Balmain wrote:

> On 10/7/06, Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/6/06, Will Rogers <wjrogers@terpalum.umd.edu> wrote:
>> > This is a cross-post from the Rails list in hopes of getting some
>> > information from people who know more about the Ruby side of things.
>> >
>> > I get compile errors from ERB in my Rails views when I load the ferret C
>> > extension. Apparently this also happens with RMagick. The most common
>> > response I've seen is to replace all tabs with spaces, and the problem
>> > will go away. I would like to know why that works, what the problem is,
>> > and if there's anything I can do to fix it. Making sure none of my views
>> > contain tab characters is not a solution I'm comfortable with for a
>> > production environment. This is what the errors look like:
>> >
>> 
>> Just chiming in to say that I get these as well. I've just been
>> search-and-replacing tabs with spaces, rather than bothering to get to
>> the bottom of it.
>> 
>
> I'd love to know what is causing this problem. I tried reproducing it
> here but I couldn't. Even installing an older version of the one-click
> installer didn't help. Ferret still ran fine and tabs didn't seem to
> do anything. What is is about tab characters anyway?
>
> Anyway, I'm still looking into it. I might try and get my hands on a
> few other systems to test on.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave

i'm guessing a different def if isspace or issacii - i've seen issues with
those before with mingw vs ms compilers...

-a
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