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Re: Windows 2008 Server: Reading Text File with Ruby.

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On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 04:58:54 +0900, Angelo NN wrote:

> Jonathan Hudson wrote in post #991291:
> > On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 04:35:44 +0900, Angelo NN wrote:
> >
> >> >>
> >> for the imported file?
> > I'm not at all familiar with dealing with encodings on Windows, but
> > assuming you're using a 1.9x ruby,
> >
> >  contents = File.open('tmp', 'r:utf-16') { |f| f.read }
> >
> > or perhaps
> >
> >  contents = File.open('tmp', 'r:utf-16le') { |f| f.read }
> >
> > Given the BOM, I'd hope that the former might work.
> >
> > -jh
> 
> Thanks - I tried utf-16.  Unfortunately it gives a "Unsupported encoding 
> utf-16 ignored" message.  Maybe it's time to switch to another Operating 
> System for me :)
> 
> >> contents = File.open('tmp', 'r:utf-16') { |f| f.read }
> (irb):15: warning: Unsupported encoding utf-16 ignored
> => 
> "\xFF\xFE\n\x00\n\x00\n\x00\n\x00C\x00a\x00p\x00a\x00c\x00i\x00t\x00y\x00=\x0
> 08\x005\x008\x009\x009\x003\x004\x005\x009\x002\x00\n\x00\n\x00\n\x00\n\x00\n\x0
> 0\n\x00"
> 

I think the old ways still work:

 require 'iconv'
 content=File.binread('tmp')
 #                   TO      FROM (set TO to 'native encoding')
 text = Iconv::conv("utf-8",'utf-16', content)
 puts text

-jh

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Windows 2008 Server: Reading Text File with Ruby. Angelo NN <storm8000@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 14:30 -0500
  Re: Windows 2008 Server: Reading Text File with Ruby. Jonathan Hudson <jh_ruby-lang@daria.co.uk> - 2011-04-06 14:33 -0500
    Re: Windows 2008 Server: Reading Text File with Ruby. Angelo NN <storm8000@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 14:35 -0500
      Re: Windows 2008 Server: Reading Text File with Ruby. Jonathan Hudson <jh_ruby-lang@daria.co.uk> - 2011-04-06 14:47 -0500
        Re: Windows 2008 Server: Reading Text File with Ruby. Angelo NN <storm8000@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 14:58 -0500
          Re: Windows 2008 Server: Reading Text File with Ruby. Jonathan Hudson <jh_ruby-lang@daria.co.uk> - 2011-04-06 15:12 -0500
            Re: Windows 2008 Server: Reading Text File with Ruby. Angelo NN <storm8000@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 15:15 -0500
          Re: Windows 2008 Server: Reading Text File with Ruby. "F. Senault" <fred@lacave.net> - 2011-04-06 22:45 +0200

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