From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2009-09-02T08:53:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Annoying: cannot write ' user=" Iñaki ' in a Ruby1.9 script

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo<ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
> Hi, I'm really annoyed, please try this:
>
> Open a file (in a UTF-8 system as any modern Linux) and write:
>
> script.rb
> --------------------
> user = "Iñaki"
> puts user
> --------------------
>
> ~# ruby1.9 script.rb
> => invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
>
> How can it be possible? The file "script.rb" is encoded in UTF-8

How about:

# encoding: utf-8
user = "Iñaki"
puts user