From: "Everton J. Carpes" <everton.carpes@...>
Date: 2009-07-16T12:37:00+09:00
Subject: Re: iconv emacs trouble

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 I know how do you feel, your problem really sucks.

To create tests that complain with this kind of issue into emacs, when my
problem was with ISO-8859 strings, I wrote code inserting multi-byte chars
by octal insertion (Use quoted-insert  -  C-q followed by octal character
code - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/info2www?(emacs)Inserting%20Text)...

Example: to insert the ISO 8859-1  string:

>> f=C3=ADsica =C3=A9 linda

(that extends to "Physics is beautiful" into portuguese), I should use

>> *f\205sica \201 linda*

where \*** is in truth the multi-byte char.
With this approach I could test iconv from emacs edited file.

DOES NOT  INSERT \***, this is just the representation that emacs display a=
t
char position when you insert it from C-q combination.

I expect that this is useful to you, cause when I pass through the same
problem, I lose a lot of time searching for this solution.


On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Francesco Malvezzi <
francesco.malvezzi@unimore.it> wrote:

> I'm finding a weird problem with iconv. I would like to convert from
> UTF-8 West European strings (like 'pan carr=C3=A8') to the ASCII//TRANSLI=
T ->
> 'pan carre'
>
> my system is: Linux bacedifo 2.6.18-6-xen-686 #1 SMP Fri Dec 12 20:13:49
> UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
> with
> ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux]
>
> my script is:
> "
> require 'iconv'
> $KCODE =3D 'UTF-8'
> require 'jcode'
>
> resume =3D 'r=C3=A9sum=C3=A9'
> puts resume.inspect
>
> puts "Internal iconv: #{Iconv.conv("ASCII//TRANSLIT", "UTF8", resume)}"
> puts "System iconv: #{%x{echo "#{resume}" | iconv -f utf-8 -t
> ascii//translit}.strip}"
> "
>
> Output is:
> francesco@bacedifo:~/tmp$ ruby ruby-talk.rb
> "r=C3=A9sum=C3=A9"
> Internal iconv: r?sum? # wrong: should be: resume
> System iconv: resume # correct
>
> Some more weirdness: with irb it just works:
> francesco@bacedifo:~/tmp$ irb -r iconv
> irb(main):001:0> resume =3D 'r=C3=A9sum=C3=A9'
> =3D> "r\303\251sum\303\251"
> irb(main):002:0>  Iconv.conv("ASCII//TRANSLIT", "UTF8", resume)
> =3D> "resume"
>
> With jruby fails in a different way:
> francesco@bacedifo:~/tmp$ jruby ruby-talk.rb
> "r=C3=A9sum=C3=A9"
> Internal iconv: r=C3=A9sum=C3=A9 # wrong
> System iconv: rA(C)sumA(C) # wrong
>
> Is it a emacs issue? Maybe, but vim does the same. It's more likely I'm
> doing something wrong. Can you help me?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Francesco
>
>


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