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Travails with readline

Applies to: Ruby 1.8.7, compiled from source, on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
I’ve been working on a side project that deals with Japanese text in Ruby. I installed rtranslate, a gem that gives me programmatic access to Google Translate. I wanted to try it out in irb.
>> require ‘rtranslate’
=> true
So far so good.

>> Translate.t(”

Here’s where [...]