From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2009-01-15T20:18:54+09:00
Subject: Re: 10 things to be aware of in 1.8 -> 1.9 transition

2009/1/14 James Gray <james@grayproductions.net>:
> On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:40 PM, David A. Black wrote:
>
>> Hi --
>>
>> I know it's not usual to announce blog posts here, but I'm going to
>> indulge the impulse as the content of this one is something I might
>> have posted here anyway:
>>
>>
>> http://dablog.rubypal.com/2009/1/14/10-things-to-be-aware-of-in-moving-to-ruby-1-9
>>
>> I'm finishing up "The Well-Grounded Rubyist" and am thinking of
>> writing an appendix with more or less this content, so I thought I'd
>> run it up the flagpole first.
>
> Double-check your examples in "Block variables scope."  It looks like they
> may be cut off.
>
> I also think you need to add a section on this error, which seems very
> likely to be the first thing programmers encounter in the new m17n code:
>
>  $ echo "Résumé" > utf8.rb
>  $ ruby_dev utf8.rb
>  utf8.rb:1: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
>

As a quick fix you can do

$ ruby -KU utf8.rb

but a guide summarizing the encoding features and possible problems
would be very helpful.

Thanks

Michal