From: The Chromag <brent@...>
Date: 2010-02-19T06:20:42+09:00
Subject: Re: RTranslate Gem (Open-URI) and Encoding

Richard Conroy wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:45 PM, The Chromag <brent@bjohnson.net> wrote:
> 
> You need to specify encoding in your ruby script. Ruby (1.8 at least, I 
> am
> not certain of 1.9)
> will use your system encoding for strings by default.
> 
> Set this constant in your script to make Ruby process strings as UTF-8,
> independently of
> your machine
> $KCODE = 'u'
> 
> There is more detail here:
> http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/the_kcode_variable_and_jcode_library
> 
> Note that Ruby could be processing google translate correctly (i.e. you 
> are
> doing everything above),
> but if you are outputting the result to the console/system out (via 
> puts)
> your machine may still
> process the UTF-8 text according to the host system. This for instance 
> is a
> particularly annoying
> problem on windows systems IME. Output to a file instead if you are 
> seeing
> this problem.

I had the $KCODE variable set.  It didn't seem to do anything in this 
case.  I outputted the translated text to a file to see if it was a 
display issue with the console and the text was still incorrect in the 
file.

Any other ideas?

Thanks.
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