From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2009-04-16T13:42:47+09:00
Subject: Re: What does this do?

2009/4/16 Petr Janda <elekktretterr@exemail.com.au>:
> Im trying to fix two libraries to be compatible with Ruby 1.9 - gruff
> and pdf-writer,
>
> and I came accross this:
>
> SyntaxError:
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/gruff-0.3.4/lib/gruff/mini/legend.rb:72:
> invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/gruff-0.3.4/lib/gruff/mini/legend.rb:72:
> invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/gruff-0.3.4/lib/gruff/mini/legend.rb:72:
> syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ':'
> ...ength < label.to_s.length ? "â¦" : '')
>
> This is the gruff code:
>
> truncated_label + (truncated_label.length < label.to_s.length ? "â^À¦" :
> '')
>
> What does a^A do?
>
It represents Horizontal Ellipsis "…" == "\xE2\x80\xA6" == "\u2026"


> I cant even find these on my keyboard let alone find out what they do.
>
> PDF-writer has something similar
>
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/pdf-writer-1.1.8/lib/pdf/writer.rb:712:
> invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/pdf-writer-1.1.8/lib/pdf/writer.rb:712:
> syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting keyword_end
>    content = "%PDF-#{@version}\n%âãÃÃ\n"
>
> Is this hidden Japanese or something?
>
It is just a comment to signal that the file is binary.

Refer to http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.15/15.09/PDFIntro/

Regards,

Park Heesob