From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2003-12-17T16:05:32+09:00 Subject: Re: non-english characters Hi, In message "Re: non-english characters" on 03/12/17, Daniel Bretoi writes: |I'm not sure, how can I find out what the germans use? and once I know |that part, how do I use it? Ask somebody around you to find out. Then if you're going to use Unicode (UTF-8), write your script in UTF-8 and invoke Ruby with -Ku option. If you use ISO-8859-* or any other single byte encoding, you don't have to do anything special. matz.