From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-02-25T02:40:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Encoding problem ? in Mechanize /NET::Http.get

Adam Cza wrote:
> Hi there.
> I'm trying to get a site to mess with, using mechanize.
> Site charset is iso-8859-2 ...
> During the process I get that rather unpleasant error
> 
>>ruby pierdolety.rb
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.9.1/lib/www/mechanize/util.rb:29:in
> `iconv': "\352</a></b></font>"... (Iconv::IllegalSequence)
>
> from this code
> 
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'mechanize'
> 
> agent = WWW::Mechanize.new{ |agent|
>     agent.user_agent_alias = 'Mac Safari'}
> 
> agent.get('http://www.land-serwis.pl/hurt/zaloguj.php')
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I tried googling it, but It gave Me no effect at all.
> 
> any ideas ?

Looking at the source code from that web site, mechanize is having 
problems with this word:

Się

The \352 in the error message is an octal number, which is 234 in 
decimal, which is the decimal code for 'ę' in iso-8859-2.   Mechanize is 
choking on that character.  The error message mentions iconv, which is a 
standard library module used to convert between different encodings.  It 
looks to me like get() is trying to use iconv to convert 'ę' to ascii, 
which is causing the error.

I looked around the Mechanize docs, and I couldn't find any mention of 
"encoding", so I have no solution.
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