From: Chilkat Software <support@...>
Date: 2006-11-08T08:27:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode in irb on windows (respectively script/console in  instantrails)


A DOS console displays characters according to the OEM code page.  Here is
an example showing how to properly display a 
string with 8bit chars (e.g. characters
with diacritics, or accent marks)...

# file: oemCodePage.rb

require 'chilkat'

# (The CkString class is freeware)
myStr = Chilkat::CkString.new()

# A DOS console does NOT display this correctly:
print "� � � �\n"

# What we need is the OEM (DOS) code page...
# OEM code pages are listed here:
# 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/unicode_81rn.asp
myStr.appendAnsi("� � � �\n")

# Emit the string in the character encoding of your choice:
# ibm850 is the OEM code page for Latin1
print myStr.getEnc("ibm850")

# Chilkat supports these:
# us-ascii
# unicode
# unicodefffe
# iso-8859-1
# iso-8859-2
# iso-8859-3
# iso-8859-4
# iso-8859-5
# iso-8859-6
# iso-8859-7
# iso-8859-8
# iso-8859-9
# iso-8859-13
# iso-8859-15
# windows-874
# windows-1250
# windows-1251
# windows-1252
# windows-1253
# windows-1254
# windows-1255
# windows-1256
# windows-1257
# windows-1258
# utf-7
# utf-8
# utf-32
# utf-32be
# shift_jis
# gb2312
# ks_c_5601-1987
# big5
# iso-2022-jp
# iso-2022-kr
# euc-jp
# euc-kr
# macintosh
# x-mac-japanese
# x-mac-chinesetrad
# x-mac-korean
# x-mac-arabic
# x-mac-hebrew
# x-mac-greek
# x-mac-cyrillic
# x-mac-chinesesimp
# x-mac-romanian
# x-mac-ukrainian
# x-mac-thai
# x-mac-ce
# x-mac-icelandic
# x-mac-turkish
# x-mac-croatian
# asmo-708
# dos-720
# dos-862
# ibm037
# ibm437
# ibm500
# ibm737
# ibm775
# ibm850
# ibm852
# ibm855
# ibm857
# ibm00858
# ibm860
# ibm861
# ibm863
# ibm864
# ibm865
# cp866
# ibm869
# ibm870
# cp875
# koi8-r
# koi8-u



At 05:07 PM 11/7/2006, you wrote:

>On 11/7/06, michael.raidel@gmail.com <michael.raidel@gmail.com> wrote:
>>I have a problem with Unicode in irb on Windows. I recognized it when
>>trying to save an attribute of an ActiveRecord-Model with an umlaut
>>(for example "�") in script/console. If the database connection is
>>encoded in utf8, everything after the umlaut gets truncated, in the
>>default encoding I get funny characters back. It doesn't matter if the
>>$KCODE is set to UTF8 or NONE, the character number stays the same
>>(also on plain irb)!
>
>The windows console -- also used by cygwin -- doesn't recognise UTF-8.
>(That is, it's not possible to properly display UTF-8 in cmd.exe, at
>least so far as I can tell.)
>
>-austin
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