From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-03-08T05:51:33+09:00
Subject: Re: libxml utf-8 locale


On Mar 7, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Mage wrote:

>  Hello,
>
> honestly if I was to select two things I hate about computers, they  
> should be XML and UTF-8.
>
> I have an xml file:
>
> "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>...."
>
> I have installed libxml-ruby and liblocale-ruby on my etch debian.
>
> I have tried:
> export LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
> kate sample.xml
> it opens the file correctly.
>
> I have tried
> export LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
> my_script.rb sample.xml
>
> It cannot deal with the UTF chars. I also have tried insert this  
> line into my script (with require 'locale' of course):
> Locale.setlocale(Locale::LC_ALL, 'hu_HU.UTF-8')
>
> No effect.
>
> My script is similar to the one in the docs:
>
>        require 'xml/libxml'
>        doc = XML::Document.file('output.xml')
>        root = doc.root
>
>        puts "Root element name: #{root.name}"
>
>        elem3 = root.find('elem3').to_a.first
>        puts "Elem3: #{elem3['attr']}"
>
>        doc.find('//root_node/foo/bar').each do |node|
>          puts "Node path: #{node.path} \t Contents: #{node}"
>        end
>
>
> (I am not using this but something like that with setlocale.)
>
> The output is filled with:
> K� n��l
>
>
> What to do now?
>
> Mage
>

Have you tried putting
$KCODE=u
at the top of your script? (possibly before any requires.)