From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-09-03T04:41:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby1.9: Encoding problems (how to use #force_encoding ?)

El Miércoles, 2 de Septiembre de 2009, James Edward Gray II escribió:

> >> 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…  ;)

Ok, that's a good point.
I'll try it.

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Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>