From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2006-11-17T17:20:20+09:00
Subject: Re: encoding in windows (newby question)

Alfonso schrieb:
> Sorry, I didn't expressed me correctly. When I said that if I type ñ ó á 
> é í in the editor I have this result
> 
> ± ¾ ß Ú Ý.      I didn't mean that I couldn't see ñ ó á é í in the 
> edited file. They appear just so: ñ ó á é í. The problem is after 
> executing the program ("ruby myprogram.rb"). Then the result in the 
> console will be this: ± ¾ ß Ú Ý. But the saved file has no problem with 
> representation...

Alfonso, this isn't a problem of Ruby, but a problem of the Windows 
console. To verify, open Notepad and enter your letters, then save the 
file. In the console, do a "type myfile.txt" (replace with the actual 
filename). You'll see the same weird characters. The reason is that the 
Windows console uses a special character encoding.

If you want to convert the output of your Ruby programs to the character 
encoding of the Windows console, look at

   http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/225185

Regards,
Pit