From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-09-02T23:59:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby1.9: Encoding problems (how to use #force_encoding ?)

2009/9/2 Axel Etzold <AEtzold@gmx.de>:
> Dear Iñaki,
>
> maybe you can use CGI.escape for your encoding problems?
>
> I fetched the Spanish wikipedia page for Alarcón like so:
>
> # encoding: utf-8
>
> require "cgi"
> require 'open-uri'
>
> search_what=CGI.escape("Alarcón")
> page="http://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Especial%3ABuscar&search=#{search_what}&fulltext=Buscar"
> open(page){ |f| print f.read }

Thanks but the problem is that the geo_location Ruby gem returns a
wrong string (encoded in ASCII-8BIT) since it contains invalid chars
for ASCII-8BIT encoding, so Ruby fails when trying to convert it to
other encoding :(

-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>