From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2006-07-07T16:33:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Danish Characters in Ruby Uri

Steve Callaway wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> There would appear to be a deficiency in the common.rb
> URI module of uri when processing non-standard
> characters 
> 
> e.g.
> 
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:432:in `split': bad
> URI(is not URI?): http://
> fakebase/twiki/bin/view/Main/�stermark
> (URI::InvalidURIError)
> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:481:in `parse'
> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:85:in `open'
> from testbed.rb:15
> 
> I have chcped till I am blue in the face, gsubbed the
> string, etc, etc, but the uri parser won't have some
> Danish characters in any shape or form. Anyone have
> any idea how I can persuade uri to take them, or some
> other viable method of getting a page back with Danish
> chars in it, or am I going to have to hack my local
> copy of common.rb apart to make this happen?

Just apply URI.encode first. That will change the URI to 
http://fakebase/twiki/bin/view/Main/%C3%98stermark (or something 
different if you are not using UTF-8), which is valid.

Good luck.