# UTF-8 problems **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 26, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-problems/73717 "2006-10-26T17:06:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![capeboylego](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@capeboylego](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capeboylego)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-problems/73717/1 "2006-10-26T17:06:09Z")
Hi, I (perhaps stupidly) decided to compile and install 1.8.5 on my Mac, thinking there might have been some improvements to Ruby. So, I did, and I fiddled around with settings, changing the default encoding to UTF-8 instead of whatever it was before, and the secondary was Shift-JIS. Problems… 1. If I write, for example, puts “???” It does that annoying Mac thing… puts “\343\201\253\343\202\203\343\203\274” I had this previously fixed for other Terminal things. 1. ri won’t install, period. It keeps giving me weird errors that I forgot to copy and paste here. It compiles itself and then stops, with lots of errors. Should I just reinstall and start over? Cameron ---
**Author:** ![capeboylego](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@capeboylego](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capeboylego)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-problems/73717/2 "2006-10-26T17:40:14Z")
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Cameron A. wrote: > I had this previously fixed for other Terminal things. > > 1. ri won’t install, period. It keeps giving me weird errors that I forgot > to copy and paste here. It compiles itself and then stops, with lots of > errors. > > Should I just reinstall and start over? > > Cameron what does this do LANG=C ruby -e’ puts “???” ’ ?? -a ---
**Author:** ![capeboylego](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@capeboylego](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capeboylego)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-problems/73717/3 "2006-10-26T17:52:16Z")
I to am having trouble with ruby on my mac after a build and install from source of v 1.8.5. Ruby is running fine (so far) however irb broke. I get the following error: $ irb dyld: NSLinkModule() error dyld: Symbol not found: \_rl\_filename\_completion\_function Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/powerpc- darwin8.8.0/readline.bundle Expected in: flat namespace Trace/BPT trap Based on info from an online post I tried a rebuild with the configure option --with-readline-dir=/usr/local but that didn’t help. Has anyone else had this problem. - Brian ---
**Author:** ![capeboylego](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@capeboylego](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capeboylego)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-problems/73717/4 "2006-10-26T22:12:46Z")
Cameron A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I (perhaps stupidly) decided to compile and install 1.8.5 on my Mac, me too, BUT i was even more prudent than you, i’ve used MacPort in irder to install Ruby 1.8.5 and now i do have a broken install for rubygems and rubycocoa,… ---
**Author:** ![capeboylego](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@capeboylego](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capeboylego)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-problems/73717/5 "2006-10-27T17:33:53Z")
Just in case anyone else is still having trouble upgrading to v1.8.5 (in my case, from 1.8.4) on Mac 10.4, here is how I resolved the following issue. ### Issue ~$ irb dyld: NSLinkModule() error dyld: Symbol not found: \_rl\_filename\_completion\_function Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/powerpc- darwin8.8.0/readline.bundle Expected in: flat namespace Trace/BPT trap ############ ### Steps to fix the above readline issue ~$ sudo rm -Rf /usr/local/lib/ruby ~$ mkdir tmp ~$ cd tmp ~/tmp$ wget “ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.5.tar.gz” ~/tmp$ tar zxvf ruby-1.8.5.tar.gz ~/tmp$ cd ruby-1.8.5 ~/tmp/ruby-1.8.5$ ./configure ~/tmp/ruby-1.8.5$ make ~/tmp/ruby-1.8.5$ sudo make install ~/tmp/ruby-1.8.5$ cd ext/readline ~/tmp/ruby-1.8.5/ext/readline$ make distclean ~/tmp/ruby-1.8.5/ext/readline$ ruby extconf.rb ~/tmp/ruby-1.8.5/ext/readline$ make ~/tmp/ruby-1.8.5/ext/readline$ sudo cp readline.bundle /usr/local/ lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.8.0/readline.bundle ~/tmp/ruby-1.8.5/ext/readline$ cd ~ ~$ irb irb(main):001:0\> Yes, I’m not sure if blowing away the /usr/local/lib/ruby dir was the best decision, but irb works now. I hope this helps anyone else who experiences this same problem. - Brian ---
**Author:** ![capeboylego](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@capeboylego](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capeboylego)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-problems/73717/6 "2006-10-27T18:13:58Z")
Brian E. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Yes, I’m not sure if blowing away the /usr/local/lib/ruby dir was the > best decision, but irb works now. some times… in my case i need rubycocoa then afaik i need to install ruby using darwinports. i’ve allready other rubies installed on my computer, for example one specifically dedicated to jruby i think it’s 1.9.