From: Alan Schwarz <alanschwarz@...>
Date: 2012-07-31T13:27:01+09:00
Subject: Re: em-http request

On Sat Jul 28 17:31:43 2012, rubix Rubix wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using EventMachine and em-http gems to open some urls
> it works fine but when I try to open a site with utf-8 encoding (french
> or arabic) I get unicode symbols instead of real character (\u202B...)
> for some sites, I get an empty answer, (I verified it has a non empty
> content)
> Is there a way to deal with this problem
> regards
>

I would like to see what you wrote, but I can only suggest for Ruby 
1.9.3

require 'addressable/uri'
normalized_url = 
Addressable::URI.parse(your_url_with_utf8_characters).normalize