From: h3raLd <h3rald@...>
Date: 2007-10-23T22:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: to_yaml and international characters

On Oct 23, 3:05 pm, "Luis Parravicini" <lparr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/07, h3raLd <h3r...@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
>
> --
> Luis Parravicinihttp://ktulu.com.ar/blog/

Thanks a lot, this solves part of the mystery!

I figured out the other half, unfortunately: the reason why I can't
view the characters in ANSI or UTF8 is because I'm inputting from DOS,
which means, unfortunately, "Code Page 437" (http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Code_page_437).