From: Angelo NN <storm8000@...>
Date: 2011-04-07T04:58:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows 2008 Server: Reading Text File with Ruby.

Jonathan Hudson wrote in post #991291:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 04:35:44 +0900, Angelo NN wrote:
>
>> >>
>> for the imported file?
> I'm not at all familiar with dealing with encodings on Windows, but
> assuming you're using a 1.9x ruby,
>
>  contents = File.open('tmp', 'r:utf-16') { |f| f.read }
>
> or perhaps
>
>  contents = File.open('tmp', 'r:utf-16le') { |f| f.read }
>
> Given the BOM, I'd hope that the former might work.
>
> -jh

Thanks - I tried utf-16.  Unfortunately it gives a "Unsupported encoding 
utf-16 ignored" message.  Maybe it's time to switch to another Operating 
System for me :)

>> contents = File.open('tmp', 'r:utf-16') { |f| f.read }
(irb):15: warning: Unsupported encoding utf-16 ignored
=> 
"\xFF\xFE\n\x00\n\x00\n\x00\n\x00C\x00a\x00p\x00a\x00c\x00i\x00t\x00y\x00=\x0
08\x005\x008\x009\x009\x003\x004\x005\x009\x002\x00\n\x00\n\x00\n\x00\n\x00\n\x0
0\n\x00"

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