From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-10-07T04:40:47+09:00
Subject: Re: tabs and parse errors with Ruby 1.8.4 and Windows

On 10/6/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> 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...
>

Yeah. I'm not using the one-click installer here, but rather the
mswin32 build it is based on. Good times.. good times..