From: "Bartosz Dziewoński" <matma.rex@...>
Date: 2012-05-22T03:41:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby- puts with accents

You should encode the output in the same encoding as the one used in
console (the "codepage" – that info displayed by `chcp`). So for
example:

# encoding: UTF-8
utf8 = "áóíúé"
puts utf8.encode('cp852')

Obviously console codepages only contain a subset of Unicode. I have
tried to get `chcp 65001` to work with Ruby once, but failed
miserably; unfortunately Windows' console is utterly broken beyond any
repair when it comes to Unicode.

-- Matma Rex