From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-27T00:39:22+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 problems

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Cameron Adamez wrote:

> Hi,
> I (perhaps stupidly) decided to compile and install 1.8.5 on my Mac,
> thinking there might have been some improvements to Ruby. So, I did, and I
> fiddled around with settings, changing the default encoding to UTF-8
> instead of whatever it was before, and the secondary was Shift-JIS.
> Problems...
> 1) If I write, for example,
> puts "???"
> It does that annoying Mac thing...
> puts "\343\201\253\343\202\203\343\203\274"
>
> I had this previously fixed for other Terminal things.
>
> 2) ri won't install, period. It keeps giving me weird errors that I forgot
> to copy and paste here. It compiles itself and then stops, with lots of
> errors.
>
> Should I just reinstall and start over?
>
> Cameron

what does this do

   LANG=C ruby -e'  puts "???"  '

??

-a
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