From: Peter Zotov <whitequark@...>
Date: 2011-05-22T04:54:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Array.index with utf-8

 On Sun, 22 May 2011 04:44:54 +0900, Misha Ognev wrote:
> Hi. I have a problem.
>
> Windows7
>
> I have an array with russian symbols. Then I want to find something
> element in it by Array.index(elem).
>
> In NetBeans 6.9.1 (it settings with utf-8) it works(write index in
> FixNum class), but when i run .rb from a windows, it doesn't 
> work(write
> nil and NilClass). Why?
>
> P.S. I'm paste the string: "# coding: utf-8" in the start of my 
> script,
> and all other operations works great, exclude this. What I must to 
> do?
>
> Thanks in advance

 Are you sure that your file is really saved in UTF-8? Under Russian 
 Windows,
 for example, the standard Notepad will save it either in CP1251, which 
 is the
 ANSI locale, or in UTF-16. IIRC in WinXP notepad there is no way to 
 save text in
 UTF-8 (I may be wrong through).

-- 
   WBR, Peter Zotov.