From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2004-05-07T19:53:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Encoding with TCPSocket

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 07:43:55PM +0900, Michael Mueller wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'd like to monitor the status of a lpr-Printer with ruby. I found nice
> snippet of Java Code that works fine but I'm running into problems
> translating it to ruby.
> Obviously my problems have to to with byte-encoding...
> The Java-Code is using a socket and sending the data as a byte-Array:
> 
> ....
> Socket socket = new Socket(ip,port);
> socket.getOutputStream().write(" List\n".getBytes());
> ....
> 
> Like already said this works just like a charm...
> My ruby-Snippet looks like this:
> ....
> socket = TCPSocket::new(server,port)
> socker.print(" List\n")
> ....
> socket.flush
> respone=socket.gets
> ...
> 
> Unfortunately all I get are some cryptic characters...
> 
> Can somebody give me a hint how to do this in ruby?

Unicode? You probably have to convert it to ASCII before printing it on
screen. Take a look at the iconv module.


Regards,

  Michael