From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2011-05-22T01:15:29+09:00
Subject: Re: BARRIER - ruby yaml - utf-8 characters not human readable

On May 20, 11:26 am, Ilias Lazaridis <il...@lazaridis.com> wrote:
> After reading within some archives, it seems that the standard-
> behaviour of ruby is to save utf-8 data within yaml files in this
> form:
>
> δοκιμή => "\x9B\xA6\xA1\xA0\xA3\xE3"
>
> Is this so?
>

Serialization of data depends on encoding. Learn about encodings and
Ruby support of it before asking questions.

Learn YAML specification about how it serializes non-ASCII
information.

If YAML doesn't fit you, write your own.

YAML specs:
http://www.yaml.org/spec/

Ruby encoding analysis:
http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/ruby_19s_three_default_encodings
http://blog.segment7.net/2011/02/02/string-encoding-quick-start
http://blog.segment7.net/2010/12/17/from-iconv-iconv-to-string-encode

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Luis Lavena