# Rchardet wrong message?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rchardet-wrong-message/187139>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 18, 2010, 8:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rchardet-wrong-message/187139 "2010-04-18T08:55:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![luofeiyu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@luofeiyu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luofeiyu)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 8:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rchardet-wrong-message/187139/1 "2010-04-18T08:55:07Z")

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in my console:  
sudo gem install rchardet  
[sudo] password for pt:  
Successfully installed rchardet-1.3  
1 gem installed  
Installing ri documentation for rchardet-1.3…  
Updating class cache with 2274 classes…  
Installing RDoc documentation for rchardet-1.3…  
pt@pt-laptop:~$ irb  
irb(main):001:0\> require ‘rchardet’  
SyntaxError:  
/usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rchardet-1.3/lib/rchardet/chardistribution.rb:60:  
syntax error, unexpected ‘:’, expecting keyword\_then or ‘;’ or ‘\n’  
/usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rchardet-1.3/lib/rchardet/chardistribution.rb:61:  
syntax error, unexpected ‘:’, expecting keyword\_then or ‘;’ or ‘\n’  
/usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rchardet-1.3/lib/rchardet/chardistribution.rb:75:  
syntax error, unexpected ‘:’, expecting keyword\_then or ‘;’ or ‘\n’  
/usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rchardet-1.3/lib/rchardet/chardistribution.rb:84:  
syntax error, unexpected keyword\_end, expecting $end  
from  
/usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rchardet-1.3/lib/rchardet.rb:25:in  
`require' from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rchardet-1.3/lib/rchardet.rb:25:in`\<top (required)\>’  
from (irb):1:in `require' from (irb):1 from /usr/local/ruby/bin/irb:12:in`’  
what is the matter?

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**Author:** ![luofeiyu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@luofeiyu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luofeiyu)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 9:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rchardet-wrong-message/187139/2 "2010-04-18T09:23:37Z")

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On 18 April 2010 07:55, Pen T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> rchardet

Looks like this was fixed on edge:

> <https://github.com/jmhodges/rchardet/commit/f54c49e6067a3403cadb2329947d3627490b7b39#L0L60>
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> Signed-off-by: Jeff Hodges \<jeff@somethingsimilar.com\>