On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 05:36:47PM -0700, Joshua Choi wrote: > ...you get a series of backslashed characters. I don't know how Shoes > is supposed to handle Unicode, but doesn't Ruby not handle Unicode > well or something?
These characters go through not only Ruby, but also Pango, Cairo and Cocoa before hitting your screen. In the case of the alert box, most of that code is Cocoa-related. I try to keep everything fluent in UTF-8 at all times (whenever converting to and from NSString,) so be sure to save your program as a UTF-8 file. What text editor are you using? _why
