Library/Homebrew/cmd/doctor.rb has a character that breaks the parser

[mtnygard]

Looks like a "smart" apostrophe got checked in to a text block. This was causing errors like "invalid multibyte char".

[mxcl]

Works here, why doesn't it work for you?

[mtnygard]

I have no idea why it didn't work for me, but does for you.

[mxcl]

Oh well, was just hoping to understand the issue. Pulled. Thanks.

[mistydemeo]

I'm guessing your /usr/bin/ruby is a symlink to Ruby 1.9.x, @mtnygard. "invalid multibyte char" is a 1.9-specific error, since 1.8 doesn't really grok encodings. (More specifically: Ruby 1.9 strings have a builtin encoding, and Ruby will throw an exception if a string contains characters which are invalid in that string's encoding. That string was being interpreted as US-ASCII, and ’ is not a valid ASCII character.)

We develop Homebrew against Ruby 1.8 since that's what comes with the OS, and don't recommend changing /usr/bin/ruby. Doesn't mean we don't fix 1.9 issues when they come up though. ;)