From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-09-02T09:15:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Annoying: cannot write ' user="  Iñaki ' in a Ruby1.9 script

El Miércoles, 2 de Septiembre de 2009, brabuhr@gmail.com escribió:
> 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


Yes, that works... but I cannot  figure why is this required. I use a system 
in UTF-8 so the file is encoded in UTF-8. Also Ruby1.9 seems to work in UTF-8 
by default:

"abc".encoding
=> #<Encoding:UTF-8>

so...?

Thanks for your reply.




-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>