From: Tim Roberts <timr@...>
Date: 2010-11-13T15:00:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Short question about encoding.

Gabriel Lichard <poopsmith@lavabit.com> wrote:

>> Are you perhaps sending the output to a device that does not understand UTF-8?
>
>I'm guessing that's the issue.
>...
>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?

Because your console doesn't use UTF-8.  Windows consoles are 8-bit, and
the 8-bit encoding they use it determined by your code page.  UTF-8 is code
page 65001, but its support is sketchy.  You can discover your code page by
typing "chcp".
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.