From: yvon.thoravallist@... (Yvon Thoraval)
Date: 2003-09-24T04:15:02+09:00
Subject: [newbie] specifying file encoding


i have a very simple script in ISO-8859-1 :
#!/usr/bin/ruby

w = "�milion"
fo = File.open("capitalize.txt", File::RDWR|File::CREAT,0600)
fo.puts w.capitalize
fo.close

resulting in :
�milion    E grave instead of Eacute

But the prob arroses because the output file "capitalize.txt" is in
MacOS Roman...

How could we secify the encoding of I/O files ???

In fact, the prob is worth than i thought if i change the encoding of
the file for the script to MacOS Roman

the w.capitalize
is written as :
�milion
that's to say NO capitalisation on accentuated chars ???
-- 
Yvon