From: Eric Jacoboni <jaco@...>
Date: 2009-03-30T08:04:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9, OS X, command line: negative string size (ArgumentError)

Bartlomiej Owczarek <bartlomiej@owczarek.com.pl> writes:


> That said I understand that this LC_CTYPE setting was there for a reason,
> presumably because my terminal is set to utf8, as it's supposed to be.
>
> So it's not clear for me why ruby would now have problem with that, and how
> to proceed - should the setting for utf8 be defined somehow
> differently?

For my own, i don't rely on LC_* variables. I've only set LANG
environment variable and pick UTF-8 in Terminal Preferences/Encoding