From: michael.raidel@...
Date: 2006-11-08T18:15:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode in irb on windows (respectively script/console in instantrails)

> Ack my bad. I had forgotten: you can specify the UTF-8 codepage (CP_UTF8) with:
>
>   chcp 65001

Thank you Austin for the nice hint!

 The problem is, that as soon as I switch the codepage, irb (and also
script/console) stops working (it doesn't even start anymore, it just
quits immediately without an error-message).

Michael