From: "Erik Bågfors" Date: 2002-02-22T20:19:42+09:00 Subject: Re: special characters On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 12:00, Tobias Reif wrote: > Hi all, > > on the commandline, I can type '�' (ä ä), > but not in IRB. > > Why not/howto? > : [bagfors@detrius]$ ; irb irb(main):001:0> a = 'r�ksm�rg�s' "r�ksm�rg�s" Works for me! What OS are you running? /Erik -- Erik B�gfors | erik@bagfors.nu Supporter of free software | GSM +46 733 279 273 fingerprint: 6666 A85B 95D3 D26B 296B 6C60 4F32 2C0B 693D 6E32