Problem with special characters like üöä (german: umlaut)

[Dirk Einecke]

Hi.

If I make this:
print 'üöä'

.... all is okay. But if I read [1] a file with the content 'üöä' and
print the content I get this: öüä. This is very strange. Can anybody
help me with this problem?

[1]
file = File.open(ENV['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] + "test5.temp", File::RDONLY)
while line = file.gets do
print line
end
file.close

bye
Dirk Einecke

 

[ts]

D> .... all is okay. But if I read [1] a file with the content 'üöä' and
D> print the content I get this: öüä. This is very strange. Can anybody
D> help me with this problem?

How have you created this file ?

It's encoded in UTF8


Guy Decoux

 

[Dirk Einecke]

Hi.

How have you created this file ?

It's encoded in UTF8

The file was created with this code:

def writeMyFile(path,content)
file = File.open(path, File::WRONLY|File::TRUNC|File::CREAT)
content = CGI::unescapeHTML(content)
file.write(content)
file.close
end

What can I change?

bye
Dirk Einecke

 

[ts]

D> The file was created with this code:

Well, if you are sure that it's encoded in UTF8

D> def writeMyFile(path,content)
D> file = File.open(path, File::WRONLY|File::TRUNC|File::CREAT)
D> content = CGI::unescapeHTML(content)

content = content.unpack("U*").pack("c*")

D> file.write(content)
D> file.close
D> end


Guy Decoux

 

[Andreas Schwarz]

D> The file was created with this code:

Well, if you are sure that it's encoded in UTF8

D> def writeMyFile(path,content)
D> file = File.open(path, File::WRONLY|File::TRUNC|File::CREAT)
D> content = CGI::unescapeHTML(content)

content = content.unpack("U*").pack("c*")

Or better: use iconv.

 

[Guillaume Marcais]

Le 12 avr. 04, à 06:39, Andreas Schwarz a écrit :

Or better: use iconv.

Any documentation for iconv?

Guillaume.

 

[Andreas Schwarz]

Le 12 avr. 04, à 06:39, Andreas Schwarz a écrit :


Any documentation for iconv?

ruby-iconv is very poorly documented
(http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/iconv/rdoc/), but it is easy to
use:

converted_text = Iconv.new('iso-8859-15', 'utf-8').iconv(text)

 

[Dirk Einecke]

Hi.

content = content.unpack("U*").pack("c*")

Thank you. Very much better now.

bye
Dirk Einecke

 

[Dirk Einecke]

Hi.

converted_text = Iconv.new('iso-8859-15', 'utf-8').iconv(text)

That's not working in my example and I don't know how. Well - unpack and
pack is working so I use this. Thanks for your help.

bye
Dirk Einecke