From: Rainer <wolf.rainer@...>
Date: 2007-12-31T06:40:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Using unicode in YAML


Hello baumanj,

 \xEF\xBB\xBF from your example above is the byte order mark (BOM)
that is needed to identify UTF-8-files. \357\273\277 are just the
octal numbers that mean \xEF\xBB\xBF in hex.  Have you tried to remove
these three bytes manually before writing your string as YAML? I
currently have a similar problem, and I just found out that these
three bytes are imported (wrongly, I think) via YAML#load_file into
one of my objects (in your case: the "jp" key).

So try this:

      f = File.open("jp.txt", "r")
      raw = f.read
      f.close
      #remove bom
      raw_without_bom = raw[3..-1]
      #now change to yaml
      hash = YAML::load(raw_without_bom)


Hope that helps.

Happy new year!

Rainer