From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2009-09-03T00:15:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby1.9: Encoding problems (how to use #force_encoding ?)

On Sep 2, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:

> 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 :(

There are no invalid characters in ASCII-8BIT.  It's a catch all  
Encoding.  So that's definitely not the problem…  ;)

James Edward Gray II