For some reason I can not produce accented characters in console [ é, ü, etc. ]

Question

This was working fine until a Mac OS update. I reinstalled RVM, rails, ruby, everything. Nothing works so far.

In my Mac Terminal, I can produce a é, but once in console, I can produce the character, with alt + character, and then when I type the letter that character is assigned to, it deletes the character.

In my ~/.rvmrc :

export ruby_configure_flags="--with-readline-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/readline/6.2.4"

Any ideas?

I've gotten it to work so far by explicitly including readline-rb.. I guess my global require isn't working..

gem 'rb-readline', '~> 0.4.2'

Answer 1

Unless another answer comes by, I'll write this for now.

I just wrote into my app itself Readline access with a gem :

gem 'rb-readline', '~> 0.4.2'

The reason I specifically chose 0.4.2 is because there is an existing bug with later versions as of August 14th 2013.

Somehow when I upgraded OS, the call to my Brew install of Readline was no longer relevant. Not sure why. I imagine there's a way to align the paths again so that it could potentially work globally throughout all my apps, but I only have one internationally sensitive one for now.