Henrik Horneber
11/25/2004 10:28:00 PM
Julius Plenz wrote:
> * Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> [2004-11-25]:
>
>>can someone tell me what i must do that irb accepts german Alt-Gr
>>keys on WinXP. I can't type [] {}
>
>
> I also have a question related to german keyboards_ Why does irb
> terminate without any further message when I include some german
> umlauts (öäüÖÄÜß) which are _not_ in quotes?
>
> e/www/plenz,0% irb
>
>>>"ä"
>
> => "\344"
>
>>>ä
>
> [terminates]
>
> Julius
Same problem here on Win2K, even though I haven't noticed it before
(thanks Julius). Maybe one should just use english identifiers? (not an
extremely bad idea anyway IMHO). Just to clarify things, I have readline
more or less working except for the occasional segfault, and I can type
[] etc with Alt+Gr just fine. Irb does not terminate immediately after
entering an Umlaut, only after pressing return.
D:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\empinator.HAMMING>irb
irb(main):001:0> a
NameError: undefined local variable or method `a' for main:Object
from (irb):1
irb(main):002:0> "ä"
=> "\204"
irb(main):003:0> ä
D:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\empinator.HAMMING>
best regards,
Henrik