Get pry to display characters like [äöüßÄÖÜß] (utf-8 encoding)? (Possibly Windows-specific issue?)

Question

[All the scripts I\'m working with with these German characters are in UTF-8 themselves, have #encoding: utf-8 at the top (and Encoding.external_defau

Answer 1

I know that if you install Ruby with readline support, then you doesn't have this problem. To do so you will need something like this if you are using rbenv (with ruby-build):

RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--with-readline-dir=`brew --prefix readline`" rbenv install 1.9.3

I don't know if there are other solutions though.