From: Mage <mage@...>
Date: 2006-03-09T02:09:24+09:00
Subject: Re: libxml utf-8 locale

Logan Capaldo wrote:

>
> 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:
>> Kà nál
>>
>>
>> What to do now?
>>
>> Mage
>>
>
> Have you tried putting
> $KCODE=u
> at the top of your script? (possibly before any requires.)

Didn't help.

Now I am using iconv converter for some nodes, but I think it's a nasty way.

Mage