From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2007-10-15T03:17:51+09:00
Subject: question about some octal formatted output?

eacute = ""
eacute << 0xC3 << 0xA9   #eacute<< 195 << 169 ; or 辿

p eacute

--output:---
"\303\251"

That ouput is in octal--although there is no leading 0.

1) Where does that format come from, i.e. no leading 0?
2) Why is the output in octal and not hex?

I looked up String#<< and it says it converts any Fixnum between 0-255
to a character.

3) Using what character set?


Thanks.
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