tr does not work with non-english chars

[J. mp]

Hi,
if I do this
?> puts "usa".tr('a','b')
usb
=> nil

it works

but with this:
It stays forever waiting for not sure about what. Does not work

what I'm doing wrong?

 

[J. mp]

This is the idea of a genius , sorry couldn't resist folks
<snip>

Robert

I can't get my answer from your answers, sorry
anyway, the case is:
the result shoul be usb but it blocks

 

[Harry]

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[J. mp]

Sorry that I wasted your time!
It was just a stupid joke, really stupid, I put a smiley and appologies
but
that was not good enough

I meant you transformed U.S.A into USB, but *both* are very useful!
Cheers
Robert

--

that's ok it seem you're not seeing my problem I'm using the char
&atilde;

 

[Harry]

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