From: "Dan Smorey Jr." <dsmorey@...>
Date: 2005-12-02T06:55:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Help getting around iconv on a PC

Hi Anders, I haven't used iconv on windows with Ruby, but I found this
googling...

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/58df01a5bd0ab5b8/330841516d29bc54?lnk=st&q=ruby+iconv+windows+install&rnum=6&hl=en#330841516d29bc54

On 12/1/05, Anders <schneida@seiu.org> wrote:
> I've just started using Ruby again, and maybe it's because it's been
> awhile since I've used it, but I've gotten stuck.  I want to use the
> bloglines Webservice API.  So, I downloaded and installed it as well as
> simple-xml, which it uses.  I run a simple test:
>
> require 'webservice/bloglines'
> print "done!\n"
>
> Ruby chokes, saying:
>
> :/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
> `require__': No such file to load -- iconv (LoadError)
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
> `require'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/webservice/parser.rb:4
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
> `require__'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
> `require'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/webservice/restapi.rb:7
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
> `require__'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
> `require'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/webservice/bloglines.rb:3
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
> `require__'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
> `require'
>         from test.rbw:1
>
> As far as I can tell from looking around the web, iconv is a Unix
> library, and I'm on a PC running WinXP.  How do I work around this?  To
> figure out what the parser is using iconv for, I've included the code
> below.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Anders Schneiderman
> SEIU International
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> # $Id: parser.rb,v 1.2 2004/09/29 04:19:10 date Exp $
>
> require 'xmlsimple'
> require 'iconv'
>
> # handling invalid character
> #        Replace from invalid character to `?'
> #        (instead of numerical character reference).
> #        Because REXML convert numerical character reference at parsing time.
> class Iconv
>         def self.fix_malformed_characters(str)
>                 iconv = Iconv.new("UTF-8", "UTF-8")
>                 out = ""
>                 begin
>                         out << iconv.iconv(str)
>                 rescue Iconv::IllegalSequence => e
>                         out << e.success
>                         ch, str = e.failed.split(//n, 2)
>                         out << if respond_to?(:unknown_unicode_handler)
>                                                          unknown_unicode_handler(ch)
>                                                  else
>                                                          "?"
>                                                  end
>                         retry
>                 end
>                 return out
>         end
> end
>
> module WebService
>
>         class Parser
>                 def initialize
>                 end
>
>                 # for REXML
>                 def fix_encoding(xml_source)
>                          xml_source.sub(/encoding="utf-8"\?>/i, 'encoding="UTF-8"?>')
>                 end
>
>                 def parse(xml_source)
>                         xml_source = fix_encoding(xml_source)
>                         xml_source = Iconv.fix_malformed_characters(xml_source)
>                         XmlSimple.xml_in(xml_source,
>                                 { 'ForceArray' => false, 'KeepRoot' => true }
>                         )
>                 end
>         end
>
> end
>
>
>