From: Martin <martin.stabenfeldt@...>
Date: 2007-06-28T00:25:04+09:00
Subject: Re: CGI.escape accepts only ISO-8859-1 input?

Forgot to paste what I have included in the script:

require 'iconv'
require 'cgi'

--
Martin


On Jun 27, 5:16 pm, Martin <martin.stabenfe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not able to convert a string to ISO-8859-1.
> Could anyone please try to help me out here?
>
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
>
> message = ARGV[0]
>
> # This doesn't seem to work, what am I doing wrong?
> Iconv.new('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8').iconv(message)
>
> encoded_message = CGI.escape(message) rescue nil
> puts "Argument #{message} translates to #{encoded_message}\n"
>
> # Script stop.
>
> If I set my terminal to UTF-8, I got this output:
> Argument input_as-UTF-8_��� translates to input_as-UTF-8_
> %C3%86%C3%98%C3%85
>
> Terminal set to ISO-8859-1:
> Argument input_as-ISO-8859-1_��� translates to input_as-ISO-8859-1_
> %C6%D8%C5
>
> Any help would be highly appreciated!