From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-11-16T01:48:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows command & unicod

On 11/15/06, m44rt3n@yahoo.com <m44rt3n@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem using unicode characters in the windows command.
>
> As a very simple example, when I type this:
>
> H:\>ruby -e 'puts "rien � faire"'
>
> I will get the following:
>
> rien � faire
>
> Does anyone know what causes this?
> When I run my scripts from Scite, this problem doesn't come up.

Please search the archives. There was a discussion about the
limitations of cmd.exe and Unicode. What you want generally can't be
done from the command-line in Windows.

-austin
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