From: Michal Suchanek Date: 2008-01-03T23:20:33+09:00 Subject: Re: IRB doesn't like umlaut u (Re: Ruby install on Kubuntu Linux - why so spread out) On 03/01/2008, Casimir wrote: > I was just writing a reply to these two EVER SO RIGHTEUSLY HELPFUL > OVERLORDS (Todd Benson and Peter Hickman) of alt.comp.ruby as a ruby > script in IRB... > > But as I was typing "über = Array.new" IRB died instantly. Same on 2nd > and 3rd time. Umlaut U. Html code ü or ü. > > Anyone know why is this? Because you did not start irb with -KU. Ruby defaults to -KN, and does not do locale before 1.9 so you have to tell it you want to use utf-8. It does not like umlauts when not using utf-8 otherwise it would just use the identifier no matter how it is encoded (because anything is valid ASCII8BIT). > > All those interested in things only Ruby can ignore the rest of this post. > > > Todd Benson kirjoitti: > > I can't put words into Peter's mouth, so I don't know what he thinks, > > but for me it seems like you're helping a little, just in a very very > > weird way. Tone down the caustic language just a little bit. You > > don't really want people hating you, do you? > > OMG are you threatening me? OMG I am sooo afraid now. *Begs for mercy* > *whimper* I will never reply to people picking on my posts in anything > but the most pleasing tone again just to pleasure you and Peter! > You were responding to a slightly ignorant post and inside your explanation you planted stuff like "Actually, the developers of (Kubuntu) should be puzzled by your thinking. Why would Windows be the perfect model for an OS. Newsflash! It is not. Take off your Bill Gates -colored glasses!" which sounds at least slightly like you are picking an argument here. It would be nicer if you could limit flamewars by responding in more civil manner. To enlighten you as well I would like to pint out that installing applications into separate folders is not specific to Windows XP and Windows in general. But since you can google even things you have never heard of (unlike the person to which you responded) you must have already googled all of that. This way of installing things has its problems and limitations but so does installing stuff in the unix way. And there are Linux distributions that install every program and library into a separate directory, and then put together FHS by symlinks to try and avoid most limitations of both. Thanks Michal