From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2008-05-02T22:21:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Searching for latin/umlaut characters in string

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:52 PM, John Butler <johnnybutler7@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Xavier Noria wrote:
>  > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:17 AM, John Butler <johnnybutler7@gmail.com>
>  > wrote:
>  >
>  >> Xavier Noria wrote:
>  >>
>  >>  > Sounds like an encoding issue with the source code itself. Are you
>  >>  > writing that "é" in the program? If yes, is your editor configured to
>  >>  > write UTF8?
>  >>
>  >>  No the string is coming in via a csv file.
>  >
>  > Is the CSV file in UTF8?
>
>  Its Ansii as far as i can tell.  Its actually coming from an excel
>  spread sheet and the user then "saves as" comma separted csv.  Then its
>  import to the application wher i am running into the problem.

If the CSV is ANSII, and the Ruby source code is ANSII, where is the
"é" coming from? :-)