From: Park Heesob <phasis@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T10:14:24+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 encoding

Hi,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <balony@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 6:31 AM
Subject: Re: UTF-8 encoding


>
>
> Dave Burt skrev:
>> balony@gmail.com wrote:
>> >
>> > Im working with xmprpc/client and the server Im working against
>> > requires utf8 for my strings.
>> >
>> > I found this article with google:
>> > http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/futurismUnicodeInRuby.html
>> >
>> > Is this for real? Is there no workaround for me to get my data to the
>> > server with uft8 encoding?
>>
>> You can use iconv or you can run an external pipe through GNU recode.
>>
>> utf8_string = Iconv.new('iso-8859-1', 'utf-8').iconv(iso_8859_string)
>
> I'm running on a windows system, that could be a problem?
> Also i'm getting "test.rb:4: uninitialized constant Iconv (NameError)"
> when testing.
>
> --
> Martin
>
Try this:

      def encode(str)
        begin
            require 'Win32API'
            str += "\0"
            ostr = "\0" * 256
            multiByteToWideChar = 
Win32API.new('kernel32','MultiByteToWideChar',['L','L','P','L','P','L'],'L')
            multiByteToWideChar.Call(0,0,str,-1,ostr,128)
            (ostr.strip + "\0").unpack("S*").pack("U*")
        rescue LoadError
            require 'iconv'
            Iconv::iconv('iso-8859-1','UTF-8',str)[0]
        end
      end

 utf8_string = encode(iso_8859_string)

Regards,

Park Heesob