International characters

[Al Hart]

I am trying to work out how to support Extended Ansi characters in ruby.

I can execute these two statements from the ruby console:

satt1 = "Grösse" 
satt2 = "Größe"

(The first word doens't exist but it highlights that the umlauted-o works, but not the double-SS character)

But when I include them in ruby source, the second will not load into Ruby.

	def test_att1	
		satt1 = "Grösse"	
		printf("SATT1; %s\n",satt1)
	end#def
	def test_att2	
		satt2 = "Größe"	
		printf("SATT2; %s\n",satt2)
	end#def

The word Größe is stored in the source file as extended Ascii: (hex) 47 72 94 E1 65

Is there a way to convert extended Ascii to multi-byte characters and/or can I switch to using Unicode?

I am using MSVC for my ruby editor - is there a way to enter accented characters better in MSVC?

[fredo6]

This happens with French accents as well (I am using Notepad++ as my Ruby editor).
The method is to prefix the special character with a backslash within the string.
For instance "Gr\ö\βe"

[Al Hart]

Thanks.

That worked and also create a multi-byte string, rather than an extended ansi string.

[fredo6]

This is normal. For German characters, you do not need Unicode. So you should swith it off.
For MSVC, I don't know if there is an efficient way to enter the extra characters. I am personally using Notepad++.