From: Luis Parravicini <lparravi@...>
Date: 2007-10-23T22:05:45+09:00
Subject: Re: to_yaml and international characters

On 10/23/07, h3raLd <h3rald@gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed some weird behavior when converting a string containing
> international characters to YAML:
>
> irb(main):002:0> 'test עשט'.to_yaml
> => "--- \"test \\x95\\x97\\x8A\"\n"
> irb(main):003:0>
>
> ...but:
>
> irb(main):001:0> 'test עשט'
> => "test \225\227\212"

\225\227\212 is the same as \x95\x97\x8A, the former in octal, and the
latter in hex.

irb(main):002:0> 0x95.to_s(8)
=> "225"
irb(main):003:0> 0x97.to_s(8)
=> "227"
irb(main):004:0> 0x8a.to_s(8)
=> "212"


Bye

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Luis Parravicini
http://ktulu.com.ar/blog/