From: Jonathan Nielsen <jonathan@...>
Date: 2010-02-20T03:48:25+09:00
Subject: Re: RTranslate Gem (Open-URI) and Encoding

> 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.

Are you using ruby 1.8 or ruby 1.9?  In 1.9, you should do
string.force_encoding("UTF-8") or
string.force_encoding("ISO-8859-1")... as needed.  In ruby 1.8, I
think it just works with the bits you provide it and it's your
terminal that determines what actually gets displayed.

-Jonathan Nielsen