From: Robert Lehman <grieve@...>
Date: 2009-03-18T06:17:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode Character 'SUBSTITUTE' (U+001A) troubles...

On Mar 17, 1:33 pm, Tim Hunter <rmag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Robert Lehman wrote:
> > On Mar 17, 12:01 pm, Robert Lehman <gri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> fin = File.open(ARGV[0], 'r')
> >> the rest.
> > I'm using Windows btw.
>
> Open the file with "rb" instead of "r".
> --
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I tried using rb and the output spits out 1/2 plain text and 1/2
random Unicode.

Our project is only allowed to be run on Linux and it seems to work
fine on there, so I'll just leave the Windows problem alone unless
someone suggests a good fix.