From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-04-22T05:32:42+09:00
Subject: Re: special characters screwing up string operations

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Aryk Grosz <tennisbum2002@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Im doing some manipulation of strings, and there are some characters
> that Ruby just really does not like:
>
> “ –
>
> If you try to paste these into a Ruby console the cursor will jump
> around. Likewise, if you put it in a string and try to do text[5,4] it
> will give you the wrong piece of the text.
With the information at hand it might be an encoding issue,
what version are you using, please paste the output of ruby -v
R.