From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-11-08T09:05:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode in irb on windows (respectively script/console in instantrails)

On 11/7/06, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> 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.)

Ack my bad. I had forgotten: you can specify the UTF-8 codepage (CP_UTF8) with:

  chcp 65001

There are some caveats, of course:

http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/03/06/544251.aspx

-austin
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