From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2007-07-01T18:46:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Question (gets.chomp)



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Datum: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 12:32:37 +0900
Von: Guest <Guest@bugmenot.com>
An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Betreff: Newbie Question (gets.chomp)

> Hiya
> 
> just hoping someone can shed some light on this.  If i were to prompt
> the user to enter a search parameter to look across a bigger string of
> text using:
> 
> print "please enter search term: "
> stdout.flush
> string1 = gets.chomp
> 
> i run into trouble when the user enters non english search terms.  how
> can i set this up to allow the user to enter other language words?
> chinese/russian/etc.
> 

Hello,

this is due to different encodings used in the console and in the text
document you're searching in.
You can tell a Ruby script to use Unicode encoding by setting

$KCODE='u'

or use Iconv 

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/iconv/rdoc/classes/Iconv.html

to convert between different encodings,e.g.,
if you need to convert from Western European ISO-8859-1 to
UTF-8:

require "Iconv"
include Iconv

puts "What do you want to search for?"
search_what=gets.chomp
search_what=Iconv.new('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1').iconv(search_what) 

# now, search for search_what (in UTF-8 encoding ) in a text
# (which is also in UTF-8 encoding ) ...


Best regards,

Axel 
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