From: "Søren Munk Skrøder" <s_skroeder@...>
Date: 2001-11-17T01:10:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25466] Handling of 'national characters' in strings

This is something i'm working on....

class Person
  def initialize(@name, @street, @phone, @age)
    puts "Created #{to_s} "
  end

  def to_s
    "Person : #{@name}, the age of #{@age}, lives at #{@street} and has
phone no #{@phone}..."
  end
end

s = Person.new( "Soeren", "Kronprinsensgade 26", "12345678", "21" )
puts s.to_s

My problem is that when i try to write my name correctly
    s = Person.new( "S�ren", "Kronprinsensgade 26", "12345678", "21" )
i get an error

Can strings not contain national characters like"�".... or do i have to do
something special to make the string contain the "�" (eg. an escape
character)

/S�ren Munk Skr�der
Odense, Denmark