From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-03-12T01:35:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Reding unicode characters?

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:49 AM, James Gray <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>
>  If the code was not character aware, it would have returned a count of
>  the bytes in the String (more than six).  String#size, for example.
>
>
>  > Where are there any unicode characters in your string?
>
>  I entered the accented e characters in UTF-8, that's why you see the -
>  KU switch to tell Ruby the encoding.
>
>  James Edward Gray II

I think this may have been discussed before, but -KU doesn't work for
me on Windows XP.  I get an unterminated string error with the
"Résumé" UTF-8 encoded string.  I can only assume that the parser is
still interpreting the string as one byte per character.  Anyone have
any ideas?

Todd