From: Ricardo Amorim <mksm@...>
Date: 2011-11-19T12:40:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:41148] [ruby-trunk - Feature #2567] Net::HTTP does not handle encoding correctly


Issue #2567 has been updated by Ricardo Amorim.


Yui NARUSE wrote:
>  The problem is stated in HTML5: misinterpreted for compatibility.
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#character-encodings-0

That link is stale as the specification is constantly being improved. I suggest http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/parsing.html#determining-the-character-encoding for discussing. The first few points should be implemented in Net::HTTP, IMHO.

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Feature #2567: Net::HTTP does not handle encoding correctly
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/2567

Author: Ryan Sims
Status: Assigned
Priority: Low
Assignee: Yui NARUSE
Category: lib
Target version: 2.0.0
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.1p376 (2009-12-07 revision 26041) [i686-linux]


=begin
 A string returned by an HTTP get does not have its encoding set appropriately with the charset field, nor does the content_type report the charset. Example code demonstrating incorrect behavior is below.
 
 #!/usr/bin/ruby -w
 # encoding: UTF-8
 
 require 'net/http'
 
 uri = URI.parse('http://www.hearya.com/feed/')
 result = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port) {|http|
     http.get(uri.request_uri)
 }
 
 p result['content-type']     # "text/xml; charset=UTF-8" <- correct
 p result.content_type        # "text/xml" <- incorrect; truncates the charset field
 puts result.body.encoding    # ASCII-8BIT <- incorrect encoding, should be UTF-8
=end



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