> I don't know how Shoes > is supposed to handle Unicode, but doesn't Ruby not handle Unicode > well or something? > Unicode and Ruby is complicated. Ruby may (or may not) mishandle it. The choice of font's in Shoes and your choice of default font and your system's fallback mechanism for handling missing fonts are involved in the 'what you see is not what you typed' problem. Just a few thousand ways to confuse everyone and only gets worse if you enter those extended chars into a Shoes/Ruby app.
Somehow, you need to discover if it's an input problem or a display problem.
