Accented characters in irb on the mac

Rails
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Hello. I’m unable to type accented characters in irb (as well as Rails’
script/console) on the Mac running Leopard (10.5.1). I’ve done a search
on the web and have not found mention of this problem, so perhaps I’m
missing something obvious?

Additional info:

  • I can type accented characters (é, ü) fine in Terminal. In
    Preferences, my character encoding is set to UTF-8.
  • Input is fine in the mysql and python command lines as well, just not
    irb.
  • My $KCODE is set to ‘u’
  • Input is fine in irb on my linux box, so I have concluded that this is
    definitely a Mac irb thing (possibly Leopard?)

Thanks in advance.
–Ed

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It’s working on my Mac with Locomotive. Try that and if it works there,
compare the environments of your terminal session and one initiated
through Locomotive.

Cheers, -sven

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On Nov 28, 2007, at 1:04 PM, Sven S. wrote:

It’s working on my Mac with Locomotive. Try that and if it works
there,
compare the environments of your terminal session and one initiated
through Locomotive.

I tried it too. It works here with the terminal that locomotive sets
up, but if you open up a fresh terminal window and just run irb it
will probably behave differently.

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George B. wrote:

On Nov 28, 2007, at 1:04 PM, Sven S. wrote:

It’s working on my Mac with Locomotive. Try that and if it works
there,
compare the environments of your terminal session and one initiated
through Locomotive.

I tried it too. It works here with the terminal that locomotive sets
up, but if you open up a fresh terminal window and just run irb it
will probably behave differently.

Thanks to you and Sven for the feedback. I’m curious if others who did
not set up rails with locomotive are seeing the same problem and/or
might know the fix. I’d prefer not to have to set up my rails
environment again with locomotive to solve this problem.

–Ed