From: Gregory Brown Date: 2010-01-04T04:20:38+09:00 Subject: Re: A small internationalization issue? On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 1:40 PM, tuti plain wrote: > puts "á é í ó ú" > > When I run this script, the output is: > > ß Θ φ ≤ · > Can someone please clarify this for me?  Thanks! What version of Ruby are you running? What encoding are your files saved in? We will need to know this in order to be able to help out. If you're new to character encodings, in general or just in Ruby, this series might help: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/character_encodings -greg