From: Ralph Mason <ralph.mason@...>
Date: 2004-01-13T09:36:19+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML & Extended characters - newbie question

Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote:

>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
>  
>
Thanks for that, I'll give it a go  I had a workaround with

node.text = str.pack("C*").unpack("U*")

It would be good if there was some documentation somewhere about text 
conversions and  REXML.  Or some kind of encoding aware string class 
that could act as an intermediary.

Ralph