From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Date: 2003-09-18T00:15:07+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 question

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:15:13AM +0900, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> ruby -Ku -e 'puts "\xf1"'
> doesn't seem to work right (i get a box, not a squiggly n)

That's going the other way.  -Ku tells Ruby to treat the source code
as UTF-8; it doesn't tell it to generate UTF-8 from methods like
puts().  I think you have to do that explicitly with iconv (although
if there's an easier way I'd love to learn about it):

ruby -riconv -e 'puts Iconv.iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", "\xf1")'