From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-01-14T23:40:44+09:00
Subject: Re: how change encoding?

2010/1/14 Marcelo Cavaco <marcelocavaco@veloxmail.com.br>:
> hi everybody,
>
> please help...
>
> i have a file (Documentação.txt) with this structure:
>
> my_data << [0, "Ação", Zlib::Deflate.deflate("Sample Text!!!")].to_a
> my_data << [0, "Test", Zlib::Deflate.deflate("Only ASCII
> chars!!!")].to_a
> my_data << [0, "Test char Á", Zlib::Deflate.deflate("New test
> (Á)")].to_a
>
> OBS: i not create this file!!!
>
> and i have this code:
>
> require 'fileutils'
> require 'zlib'
> DestFile = "D:\\temp\\app\\Documentação.txt"
> my_read_data = File.open(DestFile, 'rb') { |f| Marshal.load f }
> my_read_data.each do |item|
>  file_path = "D:\\temp\\app\\new_files_" + item[1] + ".txt"
>  file_text = Zlib::Inflate.inflate(item[2])
>  File.open(file_path, 'wb') { |file| file.write(file_text) }

I'd say you probably rather should open this file in text mode since
you are looking at it in text mode - maybe with a particular encoding
(see link below).

> end
>
> the result is
>
> new_files_AþÒo.txt
> new_files_Test.txt
> new_files_Test char ┴.txt
>
> and not
>
> new_files_Ação.txt
> new_files_Test.txt
> new_files_Test char Á.txt
>
> why this occurs?
>
> is the encode???

Likely.

> how change ?

James has an excellent blog posting about this:
http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/miscellaneous_m17n_details

Kind regards

robert

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