From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-08-28T12:33:17+09:00
Subject: Re: c-api: rb_str_new

Hi,

In message "c-api: rb_str_new"
    on 02/08/28, Matthias Veit <matthias_veit@yahoo.de> writes:

|from ruby:
|p foo.test("F�älschung")
|
|will print: 
|got: F�älschung
|"F\344lschung"
|
|Both worlds (c and ruby) handle the string correctly, but
|the translation fails. 
|Do I have to adjust the encoding? Some idea? 

I need more info.  The string from test is shorter than the original?
I guess it should print

|will print: 
|got: F�älschung
|"F\201\344lschung"

I don't know yet why \201 was dropped (due to String#inspect escaping).

							matz.