From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2011-08-11T19:58:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with Accent in Ruby 1.9+ (Latin Characters)

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Marco Floriano
<marcofloriano@cursos7.com> wrote:
>
> Having a strange behavior with my ruby 1.9.2 code. When i try to print
> latin characters with accents, i get the follow error:
>
> incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and
> IBM437

The terminal used cannot display UTF-8 characters.

That's a limitation of the terminal your IDE is using. In a normal
command prompt, you can use the "chcp" command to see and change the
current codepage (like IBM437, or Windows-1250/1251). Which one you
need depends on your language, but most Western European languages are
served with codepage 1250.

I think there's a way to change the codepage permanently, but I'm not sure how.

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