From: Bhay Zone <bhayzone@...>
Date: 2010-09-28T02:38:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Encoding problems .. ruby 1.9.2

Caleb, Brian - Thank you for your replies.

The source of this data is a bug tracking tool known as GNATS. Now this 
tool also comes with a client which provides a command line util known 
as query-pr to query GNATS. The output of query-pr is delimited text. If 
you run query-pr from the linux shell, it prints the output on the 
screen.

I invoke query-pr from my ruby program as follows (note the opening and 
closing (``) characters.

result=`query-pr --expr 'Status="closed"'`
# parse the result and take appropriate action.

I am not very sure, but my guess is that the GNATS client uses TCP 
sockets to interface with the GNATS DB.

Thanks for pointing out the redundancy, i'll fix that in my code.

Right now I have "# coding: utf-8" as the first line in the ruby file. I 
found that while trying to figure out this problem and hoped it would 
make magic ... but well ... :-(

I'll also try out the "# coding: binary" to see if that works for my 
case.

I'm not sure if going back to ruby 1.8.7 is an option .. will keep that 
as a last option.
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