From: sto.mar@...
Date: 2013-06-19T21:59:32+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML files with Chinese

Am 19.06.2013 13:15, schrieb Bryan Lockwood:
>  From my point of view, one of the advantages of YAML files is that they're easy to read and edit using normal text editors,
> and don't have all the excess cruft of XML files; yet working with Chinese vocabulary lists has revealed some odd behavior.
>
> Here's my program and it's output:
>
> Is there some way to get the output I would like to see. The output of yaml is not readable by humans, and I can't verify it much
> less change it.
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>
> Bryan
>
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> # coding: utf-8
>
> puts RUBY_VERSION
> require 'yaml'
>
> vocab = {
> "我" => "wǒ",
> "你" => "nǐ"
> }
>
> File.open("VOCAB", "w") do |file|
> YAML.dump(vocab, file)
> file.puts "-------------------------"
> file.puts "# This is what I would prefer to see"
> file.puts "---"
> vocab.each do |k,v|
>    file.puts "#{k}: #{v}"
> end
> end
> puts `cat VOCAB`
> __END__
> # What follows it the output from the above program
> 1.9.2
> ---
> "\xE6\x88\x91": "w\xC7\x92"
> "\xE4\xBD\xA0": "n\xC7\x90"
> -------------------------
> # This is what I would prefer to see
> ---
> 我: wǒ
> 你: nǐ

You posted the exact same question some time ago (May 27)!

Search for "hard-to-read yaml files" and "ruby-talk".

As I already explained, you should use 2.0.0 or 1.9.3 if possible.
See my previous answer for further options.


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