From: Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT <jupp@...>
Date: 2004-01-13T09:21:28+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML & Extended characters - newbie question

Hi!

* Ralph Mason:
> I need those string utf8 encoded before I set the text of an
> element.

IIRC the encoding used by Google defaults to ISO-8859-1 while adding
an explicit 'en=utf-8' to the argument part of the URL makes it use
utf-8.

Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT
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