On 2/14/07, Ian Macdonald <ian / caliban.org> wrote:
> However, I'm still puzzled why there's a difference between irb and a
> stand-alone script.

Maybe your editor saves the script in UTF-8 format. The irb example
clearly encodes the string in ISO-8859-1. That could explain the
difference.

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Dave Balmain
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