# Characters '{', '\[' in irb

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/characters-in-irb/88880>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 15, 2007, 8:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/characters-in-irb/88880 "2007-03-15T08:58:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![emilsverige](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/77aa72/32.png) [@emilsverige](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/emilsverige)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 8:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/characters-in-irb/88880/1 "2007-03-15T08:58:12Z")

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I have two computers (Windows XP on both) where Ruby is installed. On  
one of them everything is working fine, but the other one isn’t. If I  
copy these lines:

{“one” =\> 1}  
[“one”, “two”, “three”]

and paste it into irb I get this instead:

“one” =\> 1  
“one”, “two”, “three”

And then I get syntax error for both.

Why isn’t all of the characters copied? It’s also impossible to type  
these characters.

Regards  
Emil

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**Author:** ![emilsverige](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/77aa72/32.png) [@emilsverige](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/emilsverige)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 10:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/characters-in-irb/88880/2 "2007-03-15T10:27:42Z")

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