Ruby 1.9 and unicode

Ruby
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Well i tried to play a little with new unicode features.

i wanted to do something like this:

def Σ(*args)
args.inject(0){|sum,el| sum+el}
end

and use it like Σ[1,2,3,4]

BUT:

swistak@sreberko:~$ irb1.9
irb(main):001:0> # -- encoding: utf-8 --
irb(main):002:0* Σ(1,2,3)
=> nil
swistak@sreberko:~$

swistak@sreberko:~$ irb1.9
irb(main):001:0> def Σ(*args)
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):1: syntax error, unexpected $end
from (irb):1:in `Kernel#binding’
swistak@sreberko:~$

as you can see it’s droping back to shell after i type unicode character
in.

I’m using Debian etch. Gnome + gnome terminal.

Any ideas?

2

Marcin R. wrote:

Well i tried to play a little with new unicode features.

i wanted to do something like this:

Any ideas?

I try with netbeans and from command in windows: it works!
But not with irb.

You ca try with a script and run the script with ruby interpreter

tiziano

3

Tiziano M. wrote:

You ca try with a script and run the script with ruby interpreter

tiziano

Strange, anyone can confirm that behavior? mayby some compiler flags ?