From: "Damián M. González" <gonzalezdamianm@...>
Date: 2011-10-29T21:43:41+09:00
Subject: Encoding trouble

Hello friends, first i have to say: my english is not so good, I'll try
my best. I passed many hours yesterday and a couple of hours today
trying to figure out why my source code isn't displayed as supposed.
I'll show you the code to continue:

1   # encoding: UTF-8
2   puts "¿Cual es tu nombre? áéíóúñ"
3   nombre = gets.chomp
4   puts "¿Cual es tu segundo nombre?"
5   segundonombre = gets.chomp
6   puts "¿Cual es tu apellido?"
7   apellido = gets.chomp
8   puts "Hola " + nombre + " " + segundonombre + " " + apellido +\
9    "!! Un gustaso conocerte!! :)"

*************************The trouble*******************************
 I save this program as something.rb, and then execute it with require
'something'. I putted some characters like áéíóúñ¿ to show up in the
ruby prompt, is supposed that ruby will show me this: ¿Cual es tu
nombre? áéíóúñ, but Ruby show me crabbed characters instead of áéíóúñ¿.

 A few things to say:
 1) I'm running Windows SP3 in my PC. I have used Komodo and InType
(IDEs), and with both is the same result. I have tryied many ways: I
saved the file with UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 and variants and always the same
result.
 2) I've added puts __ENCODING__ in the middle of the source code to see
if ruby was getting the mean of the first line of the code, and it was
good, Ruby gives: UTF-8, but still show me strange characters.
 3) I`ve re-instaled Ruby, old 1.9 versions and it the same, I don't
want to have to run Ruby 1.8, reading i found that this is a trouble of
1.9 ver..
 4) Running the program:

 require 'anything'
 ┐┐Cual es tu nombre? ├í├®├¡├│├║├▒
 => Ñàácaró
 ┐┐Cual es tu segundo nombre?
 => Úúúlñ
 ┐┐Cual es tu apellido?
 => ¿¿¿¿¿¿ñá
 Hola Ñàácaró Úúúlñ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ñá!! Un gustaso conocerte!! :)
 # Observe that when I write in the prompt characters with ´ or ` or ¿
 #or ñ Ruby take it fine, i mean, it don't respond me with strange
 #characters.

 5) Strange things that I've found in Ruby about this trouble:

 puts __ENCODING__
 => CP850                        # CP850 is the Latin-1 encoding
 "ñññññ"
 => "\xA4\xA4\xA4\xA4\xA4"
 puts "ñññññ"
 => ñññññ
 "ñññññ".force_encoding("CP850")
 => "\xA4\xA4\xA4\xA4\xA4"
 "ñññññ".force_encoding("UTF-8")
 => "\xA4\xA4\xA4\xA4\xA4"
 "ñññññ".force_encoding("ISO-8859-1")  # ISO-8859-1 is the Latin-1\
 #encoding
 => "ñññññ"

 I will be very grateful with your help, thanks.

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