Hi,

In message "Re: gsub mass substitution"
    on Wed, 9 Jan 2008 20:42:57 +0900, "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs_Gabriel_y_Gal=E1n?=" <jgabrielygalan / gmail.com> writes:

|I've tried this and still doesn't work as expected
|
|jesus@jesus-laptop:~$ irb1.8 -KU
|irb(main):001:0> "ãÃcd.tr "äí", "ae"
|=> "eebcdee"

Adding 

  require 'jcode'

may help you, or bring you another trouble.  YMMV.

							matz.