From: Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@...>
Date: 2007-10-23T22:53:43+09:00
Subject: Re: to_yaml and international characters

On 10/23/07, h3raLd <h3rald@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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>

IIRC the various YAML implementations in each language can choose
to output UTF-8, or unicode-escaped ASCII. I think a YAML implementation
has to be able to read either.