Rails - Oct 2006 - ActiveSupport::Multibyte question || Rails console question

Hello guys,

I just saw this video: http://www.fngtps.com/2006/10/activesupport-multibyte
And was trying to reproduce the example in there. I got Edge Rails (rev5229).

So what I did was this (the comments are the output from the console):
$KCODE = ''u''    # => ''u''
c = ''Café is a nice word''    # => "Caf\202 is a nice
word"
puts c.reverse    # drow ecin a si éfaC

As you can see these results are quite different from what appears on
the video. Furthermore if I type this:
puts c.chars.reverse    # drow ecin a si ôÇÜfaC

And what''s even worse, it even modified my string and now my c object
is messed up, if I type this:
c    # I get this: CafôÇÜ is a nice word

It modified my string!
Anyone has any ideas why this could be happening?



About the rails console:
===============================Oh, and I want to know, why I can''t use
my Alt Gr key in the rails
console, neither my numpad to input ASCII codes for chars that I need
(because I can''t use the Alt Gr key).

For example, I can''t type "[" (a square bracket) in the
console,
because I need to push "Alt Gr + "[", so I thought:
"hmm I will use the ASCII code for that square bracket" (the code
it''s 91),
and when I tried to use my numpad in combination with my ALT key,
unexpected characters started to appear.

When numlock is activated, pressing ALT + Numpad1 I get the "a" char.
When numlock is deactivated, pressing that key combo will render a "#"
char.

Any ideas?

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Woops, forgot to mention that I got a keyboard for the spanish
language (you know, those with the "ñ" key, and others).

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Hi,

Le 7 oct. 06, à 07:16, Adrián De la Cruz a écrit :
> I just saw this video: 
> http://www.fngtps.com/2006/10/activesupport-multibyte
> And was trying to reproduce the example in there. I got Edge Rails 
> (rev5229).
>
> So what I did was this (the comments are the output from the console):
> $KCODE = ''u''    # => ''u''
> c = ''Café is a nice word''    # => "Caf\202 is a
nice word"
> puts c.reverse    # drow ecin a si éfaC
> Any ideas?
>
Your console is not set to utf-8 ?

Jean-Christophe Michel


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On 7-okt-2006, at 11:35, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote:
>> So what I did was this (the comments are the output from the  
>> console):
>> $KCODE = ''u''    # => ''u''
>> c = ''Café is a nice word''    # => "Caf\202 is
a nice word"
>> puts c.reverse    # drow ecin a si éfaC
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
> Your console is not set to utf-8 ?
I guess the question is right. What you need in this case is a UTF-8  
roundtrip, that is

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
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Julian ''Julik'' Tarkhanov
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Too bad, I''m in a windows box  =(

Any tips to solve my problem? (besides switching to Linux!).

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