From: Steve Callaway <sjc2000_uk@...>
Date: 2006-07-07T16:04:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Danish Characters in Ruby Uri

I have a workaround now (which will be doing for the
moment) which involves a Unicode gsub of the string
for DK characters e.g

str.gsub!(/�/, '&#197') #�
str.gsub!(/�/, '&#197') #�

etc...

Fortunately uri seems to be happy with this.

--- Steve Callaway <sjc2000_uk@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Hal,
> 
> Thanks for your swift reply, don't feel $KCODE is
> the
> issue but will play with it on the offchance, been
> down the escape road though with no success. My
> reading of the situation is the regexp parser in
> common.rb can't see the chars and throws the URL out
> on a (misguided) safety first basis.
> 
> rgds
> 
> Steve
> 
> --- Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> 
> > Steve Callaway wrote:
> > > 
> > > There would appear to be a deficiency in the
> > common.rb
> > > URI module of uri when processing non-standard
> > > characters 
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > Hmm... what is your $KCODE set to, and are you
> > using the jcode lib?
> > 
> > I'm not certain uri honors those, but I would
> > certainly assume so...
> > 
> > Or maybe it's an issue where certain chars need
> > to be escaped...
> > 
> > Sorry, I'm not being very helpful, am I?
> > 
> > 
> > Hal
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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