From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-04-23T11:37:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode Question

On Apr 22, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Daly wrote:

> I fixed it by reading about encoding
> and trial and error, so I'm left with a working solution, but not
> knowing why it works on the Mac but not in Linux. Could someone please
> explain?

I've been trying to covering character encodings with a heavy Ruby  
slant on my blog for just this reason:

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

My coverage is about 98% complete now, in case you want to browse a bit.

Of course, in this case it just seems that you hit a bug as Nobu said.

James Edward Gray II