From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-08-28T16:57:13+09:00
Subject: Re: c-api: rb_str_new

Hi,

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

|I used the umlaut, that is false printed. The word was:
|foo.test("F#lschung") where # is one german umlaut (The length
|of the string is 9).
|
|The string returned from test has an escaped umlaut, but the 
|length of the string is the same: 9.

So you need to use "print" or "puts" instead of "p".  "p" (and
"inspect") escapes "non ASCII characters", such as "a umlaut".

							matz.