From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2007-11-04T07:38:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode illegal characters problem

Axel Etzold wrote:
>>Jonathan Hudson wrote:
>>
>> I believe that's a "feature" of ruby iconv.
>> 
>> $ echo  caf� | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT
>> cafe
>> 
>> while
>> 
>> s="caf�"
>> ic_translit = Iconv.new('ASCII//TRANSLIT', 'UTF-8')
>> puts ic_translit.iconv(s)
>> => caf?

> Dear Jonathan,
> 
>> I believe that's a "feature" of ruby iconv. 
> 
> thanks  for your clarifications!
> 

How does that clarify things for you?  I read the other thread, and that 
doesn't clarify anything for me.  Are you simply interpreting Jonathan 
Hudson's statement to mean the other thread is wrong?

Also, I don't think it is very helpful to include every possible unicode 
statement you can think of in an attempt solve unicode problems.  For 
instance, this line:

$KCODE = 'u'

Why are you including that line in your program?  According to Ruby 
Way(2nd), p. 141,

"...$KCODE...determines the behavior of many core methods that 
manipulate strings. "

However, in the code you posted, as far as I can tell, you aren't 
calling any methods where the $KCODE changes the way they work.   Do you 
just include that line anytime you are dealing with unicode, or did you 
include it for some specific reason?

Thanks.


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