Stefan Matthias Aust <sma / 3plus4.de> writes: > A small annoyance is IMHO that I cannot put umlauts in variable or > method names and I'm even unable (using a Windows Ruby from the > pragmatic programmer's page in a cygwin shell) to print umlauts. A > program like "p 'äö'" only emits "\344\366\374". RubyWin tries to > print something different, probably Japanse characters. Ruby strings are 8-bit clean, and so should just print: dave[~ 10:22:48] ruby -e 'puts "gew?nschte Größe"' gew?nschte Größe Perhaps your KCODE is not set to 'NONE'? Dave