From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2007-06-28T00:09:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Encoding of strings received from db

Dear Marko,

I am pretty sure that nothing is wrong here - it's merely
a question of what encoding settings you give your editor.
I've tried the following:

Open an editor, write the word "S�dstrasse" into it, and
save it in UTF8 encoding as "a.txt" - so the "�" gets displayed
correctly when you have UTF8 encoding set.
Then execute the following script, which is in ISO-8859-1 encoding
- that matters for the "�" in this "S�dstrasse":

require "iconv"
text=IO.readlines("a.txt").to_s
p text  => "S\303\274dstrasse"
result = Iconv.conv("ISO-8859-1","UTF-8", text)
p result => "S\374dstrasse"
compare_to="S�dstrasse"

p compare_to==result  => true, because of the conversion made in Iconv
p compare_to==text  => false, because of the lack of conversion


Best regards,

Axel 
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