From: Magnus Holm <judofyr@...>
Date: 2012-12-12T03:12:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:50780] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #7544][Rejected] Accented characters in IRB

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:59 PM, naruse (Yui NARUSE) <naruse@airemix.jp> wrote:
>
> Issue #7544 has been updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE).
>
> Status changed from Open to Rejected
>
> cfabianski (C��dric FABIANSKI) wrote:
>> Starting from Ruby 1.9.3 Patchlevel 0 the accented characters are not well handled into 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 "��"
>
> It should be
>   puts "C\u00e9dric"

I tihnk you're misundestanding this issue.

If I type "��" in an IRB session this is inserted instead:
"\U+FFC3\U+FFA6". It just magically appears. But it doesn't seem to be
actual characters that IRB sees. I only need to press backspace
*twice* to get rid of everything. And if I press Enter, it just gets
ignored by IRB.