From: Daniel Waite <rabbitblue@...>
Date: 2008-02-07T09:22:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange characters... how are they created?

Todd Benson wrote:
> I don't know anything about bittorrent, but
> 
> s = '20:Ÿø\îµÊ^Ω¬ ‡m$æÉ* ú0*'
> puts s.unpack('h*')
> 
> might point you in the right direction.

That's an interesting operation, but nay, no directional change. (Also, 
pasting it into IRB causes my machine to beep and pause. Dunno why 
though. Perhaps the characters being pasted mean something special to 
Ruby?)

I asked a friend of mine and he said that if you dump the output of the 
digest method directly to a file, you'll get the funky output.

My guess is console does some kind of conversion -- possibly with 
character encoding?

Anywho, the following...

require 'digest/sha1'

output = File.open('output', 'w+')
source = IO.read('./README_FOR_APP', 512)
output << Digest::SHA1.digest(source)
output.close

Yields the same "style" output that Transmission generates.
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