# YAML can not accept "\\t" under windows! **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 8, 2005, 8:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yaml-can-not-accept-t-under-windows/52910 "2005-12-08T08:17:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![capitain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@capitain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capitain)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 8:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yaml-can-not-accept-t-under-windows/52910/1 "2005-12-08T08:17:18Z")
when i try this code ruby -ryaml -e ‘p YAML.load(" — hello")’ it print the “hello” but when i use ruby -ryaml -e ‘p YAML.load("\t— hello")’ under my windows ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32] it print such error e:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:119:in `load': parse error on line 0, col 10:`’ (ArgumentError) from e:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:119:in `load’ from -e:1 but it’s ok under linux , so why yaml can not accept “\t” under windows ? ---
**Author:** ![capitain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@capitain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capitain)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 10:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yaml-can-not-accept-t-under-windows/52910/2 "2005-12-08T10:23:50Z")
cap wrote: > when i try this code > ruby -ryaml -e ‘p YAML.load(" — hello")’ > it print the “hello” > > but when i use > ruby -ryaml -e ‘p YAML.load(“\t— hello”)’ under my windows > ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32] > it print such error Which proves that if you try hard enough to break something, you’ll probably succeed. Where in the specification does it say that should work? [http://yaml.org/spec/current.html#id2525905](http://yaml.org/spec/current.html#id2525905) It’ll work on 1.8.4 but that doesn’t make it part of the spec. daz ---
**Author:** ![capitain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@capitain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capitain)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 10:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yaml-can-not-accept-t-under-windows/52910/3 "2005-12-08T10:40:09Z")
cap: > but it’s ok under linux , so why yaml can not accept “\t” under windows ? It doesn’t under Linux either. YAML does not like tabs. Malte ---
**Author:** ![capitain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@capitain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capitain)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yaml-can-not-accept-t-under-windows/52910/4 "2005-12-08T16:58:46Z")
I meet the same problem when using rubyonrails the webrick produce strange “Invalid char `\003’ in expression” error in the page when the rhtml file contains table character(use TABLE to input a character using editplus or radrais) has anyone met the same problem? :(( ---
**Author:** ![capitain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@capitain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capitain)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yaml-can-not-accept-t-under-windows/52910/5 "2005-12-08T17:23:22Z")
5 min ago, I realized that the ruby version in my linux server is 1.8.3. So I upgrade my windows ruby version to 1.8.3 ms-win32 Now ,the YAML can accept “\t” and the rails works very good 🙂 but i still doesn’t know the reason… ---
**Author:** ![capitain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@capitain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capitain)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yaml-can-not-accept-t-under-windows/52910/6 "2005-12-08T18:33:56Z")
Hello. cap: > Now, the YAML can accept “\t” and the rails works very good 🙂 > but i still doesn’t know the reason… [YAML Ain't Markup Language](http://yaml.org/faq.html) has one question only, that question being ‘Why does YAML forbid tabs?’ :o) Cheers, – Shot