From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2010-07-17T23:36:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Different results in command-line vs. TextMate

Hi --

On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, Ammar Ali wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:03 PM, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
>
>> James's text file has some non-printing (Word-derived?) characters,
>> instead of regular spaces:
>>
>
> Those are nonbreak spaces (U+00A0, 0xC2A0) that should be treated as \W.
>
> What's odd is that when I try to scan these lines, I get different
>> results depending on whether I'm on the command line or in TextMate.
>>
>
> I thought the CRLF line endings might have something to do with it, but the
> result was the same. Another clue, with 1.9.1-p378, the result from TextMate
> was correct, identical to that of the command line.

Thanks for checking. It turns out to be an encoding thing: TextMate
invokes Ruby with -KU. Without the -KU (which involved editing an
underlying script file, as well as the Bundle Editor entry, but then
again I'm not a bit TextMate bundle expert), it ran the same as the
unadorned command line.


David

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