From: Gabriel Lichard <poopsmith@...>
Date: 2010-11-11T23:15:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Short question about encoding.

> Are you perhaps sending the output to a device that does not understand UTF-8?

I'm guessing that's the issue.

Although, I'm on Windows 7 and in the Command Prompt I can copy/paste
the "√" character and it appears fine in the Courier New font and
everything, when I run Ruby (Ruby 1.9.2p0) or irb I can't copy/paste
that character anymore. When I save this in a file and run it:

s = "√"
p s
puts s

it outputs:

"\u221A"
√

But then again when I just do:

File.open("test.txt", "w"){|x|x << "√"}

and run it, it makes the test.txt file and saves it without any problems
and with the actual square root character in the file.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong or why it won't appear in the console?

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