I'm getting confused.

  print "HellòÜn", "Dave\n";

(note the has an accent) produces

  HellòÜnDave

while

  print "Hell\n", "Dave\n";

gives

  Hell  Dave

Also, it seems like you can call methods with accents in their names,
but when you try to reference such a variable, Ruby is sucking up the
next character and getting confused.

Regards

Dave