Ruby in Chinese
Tweetin Ruby 1.8, if you try and assign a variable
你=”ni3”
you’ll get an error
Invalid char `\344’ in expression
Invalid char `\275’ in expression
Invalid char `\240’ in expression
syntax error, unexpected ‘=’
你= “ni3”
But in Ruby 1.9 it actually works.
You just need to add a magic “coding: uft-8” header to your ruby file.
# coding: utf-8
你= “ni3”
好= “hao3”
puts(你+好)
Wham!
matthew@RuPro:~$ ruby chinese.rb
ni3hao3
(if you can’t write chinese, steal my gist http://gist.github.com/613670)
