From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-05-07T22:39:16+09:00
Subject: Re: command interpretation

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 07:45:05PM +0900, Martin Krischik wrote:
> Background: I use ruby on the vms operating system and I want to run the 
> following test command:
> 
>  x = �WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$TRNLNM("SOURCE")�
> 
> But all I get is:
> 
> test.ruby:8: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
> test.ruby:8: parse error
>  x = �WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$TRNLNM("SOURCE")�
>                         ^
> From which I deduct that some "magic" is done with the $ character 
> which I don't want.

In the mail you sent, I saw character \264 (octal) where there should be a
backtick. A backtick is \140 (octal), \x60 (hex), 96 (decimal)

Have you tried using %x(...) instead?