From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-09-28T02:59:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Encoding problems .. ruby 1.9.2

Bhay Zone wrote:
> 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.

That's backticks. Follow that line with:

  result.force_encoding("ASCII-8BIT")

when running with ruby 1.9, before you start doing your substitutions.

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

Maybe, but that's irrelevant here. Ruby is reading the output of 
query-pr, as a string, and has decided to give it some arbitrary guessed 
encoding.

> 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.

It won't. It will only affect the coding of quoted string literals 
within your code.
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