From: NewtonApple <newtonapple@...>
Date: 2008-01-21T19:34:56+09:00
Subject: Lyrics and Chinese in Ruby?

Hello, has anyone used Chinese with Ruby?  I'm trying to write a
script that would import/export my lyrics from/to lyricwiki.org.
Since they don't have a lot of Chinese lyrics, I thought I'd help them
out by exporting my collection.  Looking at their SOAP API wiki
(http://lyricwiki.org/LyricWiki:SOAP), they seem have some troubles
encoding and decoding Unicode characters using Ruby's soap/
wsdlDriver.  I tried to run my songs' meta data through rubyosa.  But
I have no luck.

Here's a few songs I've tried out by copy-pasting the artist and song
names into the source and fetching the lyrics:
http://lyricwiki.org/Category:Language/Cantonese.

And here is a simple script, I've been testing with (w/ RubyOSA):
http://pastie.caboo.se/141454

My system is running on MacOS Leopard, Ruby 1.8.6.  Thanks in advance
for all your help!

David