From: Dido Sevilla <dido.sevilla@...>
Date: 2010-01-29T03:36:20+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub not working to replace a 'Chinese' Charater.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Ryan Smith <sunraise2005@gmail.com> wrote:
> I parse a webpage which encoded in gb2312, using Watir to get the
> context of the page title, and want to replace the 'chinese character'
> in title with english words.
>
> When puts title which watir get, the chinese character displaied as
> corrupt code there (under windows cmd,code page using cp936, display
> works normal when change code page to utf-8).  But I think cmd's code
> page just display setting does not related with what I need (replace
> chinese char). I did not know if string I get by Watir is also in
> 'gb2312' encoding or something others, the fact is fail happen when
> convert the string to utf-8 encoding, message is complain the char is
> invalid.

GB2312? From a web page that probably means EUC-CN, so you have to
convert from that encoding into UTF-8.

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