CGI.escape accepts only ISO-8859-1 input?

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Hi,

I'm not able to convert a string to ISO-8859-1.
Could anyone please try to help me out here?

#!/usr/bin/ruby

message = ARGV[0]

# This doesn't seem to work, what am I doing wrong?
Iconv.new('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8').iconv(message)

encoded_message = CGI.escape(message) rescue nil
puts "Argument #{message} translates to #{encoded_message}\n"

# Script stop.

If I set my terminal to UTF-8, I got this output:
Argument input_as-UTF-8_ÆØÅ translates to input_as-UTF-8_
%C3%86%C3%98%C3%85

Terminal set to ISO-8859-1:
Argument input_as-ISO-8859-1_ÆØÅ translates to input_as-ISO-8859-1_
%C6%D8%C5

Any help would be highly appreciated!

2

Forgot to paste what I have included in the script:

require 'iconv'
require 'cgi'

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Martin

On Jun 27, 5:16 pm, Martin <martin.stabenfe...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm not able to convert a string to ISO-8859-1.
Could anyone please try to help me out here?

#!/usr/bin/ruby

message = ARGV[0]

# This doesn't seem to work, what am I doing wrong?
Iconv.new('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8').iconv(message)

encoded_message = CGI.escape(message) rescue nil
puts "Argument #{message} translates to #{encoded_message}\n"

# Script stop.

If I set my terminal to UTF-8, I got this output:
Argument input_as-UTF-8_ÆØÅ translates to input_as-UTF-8_
%C3%86%C3%98%C3%85

Terminal set to ISO-8859-1:
Argument input_as-ISO-8859-1_ÆØÅ translates to input_as-ISO-8859-1_
%C6%D8%C5

Any help would be highly appreciated!

3

Hi,

I'm not able to convert a string to ISO-8859-1.
Could anyone please try to help me out here?

#!/usr/bin/ruby

message = ARGV[0]

# This doesn't seem to work, what am I doing wrong?
Iconv.new('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8').iconv(message)

You're discarding the return value. Perhaps you mean:

   message = Iconv.new('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8').iconv(message)

···

On 6/27/07, Martin <martin.stabenfeldt@gmail.com> wrote:

encoded_message = CGI.escape(message) rescue nil
puts "Argument #{message} translates to #{encoded_message}\n"

# Script stop.

If I set my terminal to UTF-8, I got this output:
Argument input_as-UTF-8_ÆØÅ translates to input_as-UTF-8_
%C3%86%C3%98%C3%85

Terminal set to ISO-8859-1:
Argument input_as-ISO-8859-1_ÆØÅ translates to input_as-ISO-8859-1_
%C6%D8%C5

Any help would be highly appreciated!