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Asked: 2026-06-06T00:25:33+00:00

Update : I found almost exact similar question , yet it has slightly different

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Update: I found almost exact similar question, yet it has slightly different prerequisites and thus doesn’t help much.

Given:

  • MacOS Lion 10.7.3
  • rvm 1.14.2

  • ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-darwin11.3.0]

    Ruby was installed with the following line:


    rvm install 1.9.3 --with-readline-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/readline/6.2.2/

When I fire up irb or rails c and start typing unicode characters, I get:


\U+FFD0\U+FFBF\U+FFD1\U+FFD0\U+FFB8\U+FFD0\U+FFBC\U+FFD0\U+FFB5\U+FFD1

How do I get unicode characters displayed correctly when typing on Ruby/Rails consoles?

P.S. Typing same characters in bash session of Terminal result in proper output.

P.P.S. Just to be clear — in console I am typing russian characters: are they considered unicode symbols?

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  1. Editorial Team

    RVM has issues with readline installed via homebrew. This gist worked perfectly for me:

    $ rvm get latest
$ rvm pkg install readline
$ rvm install 1.9.3 --with-readline-dir=$rvm_path/usr

    Instead of install you can use reinstall.

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