Hi, 

In message "[ruby-talk:01029] Re: Is this a bug?"
    on 00/01/03, Dave Thomas <Dave / thomases.com> writes:
>In the email, 8859-1. In the environment where I ran the Ruby script,
>the locale was POSIX.

Sorry, I can't find locale POSIX.  If you use Emacs, would you tell me
what buffer-file-coding-system is?  Or could you tell me the result of
od -x:

  % cat foo.rb
  = 1 
  % od -x foo.rb
  (Please report here)

>There seems to be some effect where an accented character causes Ruby
>to eat the next character. I've found that this fails:

I'm guessing "เข was treated as multibyte character.

-- gotoken