I'll be sitting in #ruby-core today if anyone's interested in
discussing this.

-John

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> Hey guys,
>
> I stumbled across what is a bug in the YAML library.  ¨Âäïåó îï> properly encode certain multi-line strings.  ¨Âéòõð éò⬠áîôòôè> following:
>
>
>
> >> require 'yaml'
> => true
> >> s3 = "\n  ¨Â÷ïòë¿ÜîÎéîäåîô>
> => "\n  ¨Â÷ïòë¿ÜîÎéîäåîô>
> >> YAML.load(YAML.dump(s3))
>
> ArgumentError: syntax error on line 3, col 0: `No indent'
> from /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20080810/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:
> 133:in `load'
> from /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20080810/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:
> 133:in `load'
> from (irb):3
>
> I've confirmed it's broken in both 1.8.6.p111, and REE 1.8.6.p287.
>
> I wrote up a pretty thorough exploration of this bug in a blog post
> describing the problem and offering a (sub-optimal) patch:http://blog.smartlogicsolutions.com/2008/09/04/ruby-patch-to-fix-brok...
>
> I'll be out of town most of this weekend, but will try to check back
> in intermittently to carry on a conversation if anyone bites.
>
> -John