From: The Chromag <brent@...>
Date: 2010-02-20T03:39:55+09:00
Subject: Re: RTranslate Gem (Open-URI) and Encoding

Seebs wrote:
> On 2010-02-18, The Chromag <brent@bjohnson.net> wrote:
>> I'm using the rtranslate gem (sishen-rtranslate) to handle translating
>> some text.  It uses open-uri to scrape Google Translate.  If I attempt
>> to translate text from English to Spanish it outputs some garbage
>> characters.
> 
>> Translating the word "where" returns "dónde" instead of "d�nde"
> 
> The amusing part is that the first one looks fine to me.
> 
> I suspect this means that you're getting UTF8 when you expect something
> in some particular encoding, so you should be specifying encodings...

Where would I specify the encoding to fix this problem?  And yes, I just 
noticed that in a reply it DOES look correct, but when I posted it, it 
was not.  I'm guessing somewhere (other than $KCODE) I need to set it as 
UTF-8.

Thanks.
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