From: Regis d'Aubarede Date: 2011-08-11T20:02:47+09:00 Subject: Re: Problems with Accent in Ruby 1.9+ (Latin Characters) Your text is in US-ASCII. try : * put "# encoding: ASCII" at the beginning of source or * convert your text to utf-8 - (notepad++, set encoding ASCIII / convert UTF-8) - iconv test your execution with p __ENCODING__ good luck :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.