Umlauts in source code

[Bertram Scharpf]

Hi,

on my Debian Linux this problem doesn't appear. Yet, it is
reported to me that on SuSE Linux, the standard Ruby
installation has problems with reading in source files that
contain umlauts (characters >= '\x80').

A string 'ü' produces a syntax error, a regexp /ü/ will
report a "premature end" of the regexp.

I made experiments with $KCODE but I didn't achieve to
reproduce the reported misbehaviour.

I could enter '\xfc' everywhere I need a 'ü' but that is
annoying.

What do I have to do to solve this correctly?

Thanks in advance,

Bertram

 

[Yukihiro Matsumoto]

Hi,

In message "Re: Umlauts in source code"

|on my Debian Linux this problem doesn't appear. Yet, it is
|reported to me that on SuSE Linux, the standard Ruby
|installation has problems with reading in source files that
|contain umlauts (characters >= '\x80').

I think the difference is the default KCODE value in the compile time
configuration. One needs to set -Kn when he wants to put iso-8859
letters. The simple

#! /usr/bin/ruby -Kn

at the beginning of a file will do.

matz.

 

[Bertram Scharpf]

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, 20. Jan 2005, 22:58:05 +0900 schrieb Yukihiro Matsumoto:

In message "Re: Umlauts in source code"

|on my Debian Linux this problem doesn't appear. Yet, it is
|reported to me that on SuSE Linux, the standard Ruby
|installation has problems with reading in source files that
|contain umlauts (characters >= '\x80').

I think the difference is the default KCODE value in the compile time
configuration. One needs to set -Kn when he wants to put iso-8859
letters. The simple

#! /usr/bin/ruby -Kn

at the beginning of a file will do.

Ah, yes! As I noiticed in the meantime, SuSE sets $KCODE by
default to "UTF-8".

Bertram

 

[Bertram Scharpf]

Hi,

Am Freitag, 21. Jan 2005, 02:40:07 +0900 schrieb Bertram Scharpf:
I would like to propose a solution similar to that in Python
since

#!/usr/bin/env ruby -Kn

doesn't work. In Python, the second line is allowed to give
the character encoding:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: iso-8859-15 -*-

Or does anybody know a better solution?

Bertram

 

[ts]

B> Or does anybody know a better solution?

See [ruby-core:4192]

http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/4192


Guy Decoux

 

[Bertram Scharpf]

Hi Guy,

Am Sonntag, 23. Jan 2005, 02:02:31 +0900 schrieb ts:

B> Or does anybody know a better solution?

See [ruby-core:4192]

http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/4192

Ah, thanks!

Bertram