From: Ben Schumacher <ben@...>
Date: 2002-10-12T05:18:55+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 Character Conversion to HTML

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Excuse me. That's not Polish, its Portugese, but I'm having problems
with characters from Portugese, Spanish, Czech and Polish.

Cheers,

bs.

Ben Schumacher wrote:
| All-
|
| I'm trying to convert some characters from a text file that are
| double-byte characters from Czech and Polish into HTML entities. I have
| a Ruby script that I'm trying to do this with, but when I'm scanning,
| I'm getting several characters, instead of just one. Can somebody help
| me out here? I imagine I'm not doing this in a terribly efficiently
| anyhow, so an optimizations would be appreciated. Here's the text I'm
| converting:
|
|     Aguarda carregamento da p�gina....
|
| And I'm doing this for the conversion:
|
| str = "Aguarda carregamento da p�gina...."
| str.scan(/./mu) { |c|
|     v = c.unpack("U.")[0]
|     if (v > 255)
|         out += "&\##{v};"
|     else
|         out += c
|     end
| }
| puts str
|
| The output is:
|     Aguarda carregamento da p&#6633;na....
|
| Which is obviously not correct. When I do a "p c" inside the String#scan
| block, it shows the script is grabbing all characters individually (as
| it should), except "�gi" which is grabs together. The output from that
| is: "\341gi"
|
| I don't know enough about internationalization to know any meaning to
| this, but I need to figure it out ASAP.
|
| Any help would be much obliged.
|
| Cheers,
|
| bs.
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