From: Magnus Holm <judofyr@...>
Date: 2012-12-12T00:39:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:50767] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #7544][Open] Accented characters in IRB

>>> RUBY_VERSION
> => "1.9.3"
>>> RUBY_PATCHLEVEL
> => 0
>>> puts "C��dric"
> C��dric
> => nil
>
>>> RUBY_VERSION
> => "1.9.3"
>>> RUBY_PATCHLEVEL
> => 327
> => puts "C\U+FFC3\U+FFA9dric"
> Cdric
> => nil
>
> Note : "\U+FFC3\U+FFA9" is what I'm getting when I try to enter "��"

This is also a problem in Pry, so maybe something changed in Readline?