From: nobu.nokada@... Date: 2002-08-28T17:00:14+09:00 Subject: Re: c-api: rb_str_new Hi, At Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:18:58 +0900, Matthias Veit wrote: > will print: > got: F�lschung > "F\344lschung" Just String#inspect shows non-printable characters with escape. Ruby counts multibyte characters as printable according to the value of $KCODE, however, latin charsets are not dealt with good enogh now. -- Nobu Nakada