From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-01-15T22:42:11+09:00
Subject: Re: 10 things to be aware of in 1.8 -> 1.9 transition

On Jan 15, 2009, at 5:18 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, I've been working on such a guide:

http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/understanding_m17n

I just haven't got to the 1.9 sections yet.  I will eventually though…

James Edward Gray II