From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2011-04-07T05:45:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows 2008 Server: Reading Text File with Ruby.

Le 6 avril 2011 � 21:58, Angelo NN a �crit :

> 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 :)

If you want the list of encodings that ruby supports, try :

ruby -e 'puts Encoding.list'

I think you are looking for 'UTF16-LE'.

>>> 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"

>> contents = File.open('tst', 'rb:utf-16le') { |f| f.read }
=> "\uFEFF\n\nNode,Capacity\n\nPS,8589934592"

If you want to ignore the BOM (byte order mark), just skip the two first
bytes :

>> contents = File.open('tst', 'rb:utf-16le') { |f| f.seek(2) ; f.read }
=> "\n\nNode,Capacity\n\nPS,8589934592"

HTH,

Fred
-- 
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