Given the following:

       = 1 
       print ଠ"\n"

(where the variable is an 'a' with a grave accent), I get

       /tc/dave/play/line.rb:2: undefined method `à¬'
            for #<Object:0x40197ed4> (NameError)

Comment out the 'print'line, and it runs.

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but why is 'ৠtreated
differently in the two lines?

Regards

Dave