From: "Jesse P." <j.prabawa@...>
Date: 2008-01-06T22:30:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp for matching UTF-8 characters without close tag

Thanks Tiziano :)

On Jan 6, 3:56 am, Tiziano Merzi <giua...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jesse P. wrote:
> > Hi Tiziano,
>
> > My apologies. It seems that I have oversimplied the problem due to my
> > lack of understanding for UTF-8.
>
> > The actual string is an xml file I obtained from flickr at
> >http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.people.getInfo&api...
>
> You have a broken utf-8 docoment (a read the Matz reply)
>
> I see two solutions:
>
> a)
>
> require 'rexml/document'
> require 'iconv'
>
> data =  your xml document
> data = Iconv.conv("UTF-8","ISO-8859-1",data)
> doc = REXML::Document.new(data)
>
> you must convert the data of doc from utf-8 to iso befor use it
>
> username = Iconv.conv("ISO-8859-1","UTF-8",doc. )
>
> b) change the encoding of the xml
>
> require 'rexml/document'
>
> data =  your xml document
> data = data.gsub(/encoding="utf-8"/i, 'encoding="iso-8859-1"')
> doc = REXML::Document.new(data)
>
> Anyway a) and b) don't work if the document contains valid utf-8 chars
> not in ascii-7 (for example latin letters è, ò, etc.)
>
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