Une Bév ue wrote: > 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss / yahoo.com> wrote: > >> That is your display device's >> interpretation of the string. > > fine, thanks ;-) > > in fact this is due to my text editor (TextMate); i did the following > experiment : > > make a folder on desktop with an accentuated character e run the script > : > > puts "Defaut" # here the e is accentuated as the folder on desktop > > Dir.glob( "/Users/yt/Desktop/*" ).each { | f | puts f } > > on "RubyMate" (the TextMate "console") i get the right think but copying > from "RubyMate" to a ruby utf-8 encoded file (still within TextMate) i > get e' (e ans the accent apart)... What is a 'ruby utf-8 encoded file'? As an aside, how do you like TextMate? You might try running your program in Terminal to see if things make more sense. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.