From: Benoit Daloze Date: 2011-11-22T20:20:04+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:41199] [ruby-trunk - Feature #2567] Net::HTTP does not handle encoding correctly Issue #2567 has been updated by Benoit Daloze. I agree with Alex Young, the encoding should be set from the header if available. I believe a sensible default is way better than requiring the user to do the obvious. One can always use force_encoding if he knows the header is wrong, in which case the error if from the page, not Net:::HTTP. ---------------------------------------- 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 -- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org