From: Steve Callaway <sjc2000_uk@...>
Date: 2006-07-07T16:51:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Danish Characters in Ruby Uri

ah cool, thanks very much, that looks a much sweeter
fix :)

rgds

Steve

--- Carlos <angus@quovadis.com.ar> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 


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