Newbie Question (gets.chomp)

[Guest]

Hiya

just hoping someone can shed some light on this. If i were to prompt
the user to enter a search parameter to look across a bigger string of
text using:

print "please enter search term: "
stdout.flush
string1 = gets.chomp

i run into trouble when the user enters non english search terms. how
can i set this up to allow the user to enter other language words?
chinese/russian/etc.

thanks, seems like a simple question... but i couldn't find anything on
it in the forums

 

[Axel Etzold]

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Datum: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 12:32:37 +0900
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Hiya

just hoping someone can shed some light on this. If i were to prompt
the user to enter a search parameter to look across a bigger string of
text using:

print "please enter search term: "
stdout.flush
string1 = gets.chomp

i run into trouble when the user enters non english search terms. how
can i set this up to allow the user to enter other language words?
chinese/russian/etc.

Hello,

this is due to different encodings used in the console and in the text
document you're searching in.
You can tell a Ruby script to use Unicode encoding by setting

$KCODE='u'

or use Iconv

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/iconv/rdoc/classes/Iconv.html

to convert between different encodings,e.g.,
if you need to convert from Western European ISO-8859-1 to
UTF-8:

require "Iconv"
include Iconv

puts "What do you want to search for?"
search_what=gets.chomp
search_what=Iconv.new('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1').iconv(search_what)

# now, search for search_what (in UTF-8 encoding ) in a text
# (which is also in UTF-8 encoding ) ...


Best regards,

Axel