From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-01-21T05:15:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Encoding problems

On Jan 20, 4:46 pm, Noé Alejandro <casan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I have a database (sqlite) with Ansi - Latín I codepage. With a Select
> statement in Ruby, the data returned are in UTF-8. E. g.:
>
> Database: ocupación
> Ruby    : ocupaci\xC3\xB3n
>
> How can I display the correct data (i. e., ocupación)?
>

All that depends on the console encoding you're trying to output that
information to.

If is terminal on Linux/OSX, most likely is going to work as console
is UTF8

On Windows, you need the console be set the codepage to 1252, which is
not default (use chcp)

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Luis Lavena