From: Thomas Luedeke Date: 2011-03-06T16:47:21+09:00 Subject: Re: UTF-8 support - still stuck The script is: ======================================== #! /bin/ruby -vU #Encoding: UTF-8 verb = "appèler" if ${verb} =~ /èler/ then print "The verb was #{verb}" end ======================================== The error I get is: ruby note.rb note.rb:9: invalid multibyte char (UTF-8) note.rb:9: syntax error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting $end verb = "appΦler" -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.