Windows command & unicode

ruby-talk
1

Hi all,

I have a problem using unicode characters in the windows command.

As a very simple example, when I type this:

H:\>ruby -e 'puts "rien à faire"'

I will get the following:

rien Ó faire

Does anyone know what causes this?
When I run my scripts from Scite, this problem doesn't come up.

Kind regards,
Maarten

2

I believe the Windows command prompt displays text using the system
codepage (the Regional Settings control panel). I'm not aware of a way
to make it treat things as real UTF-8.

Let me know if you figure it out, though. Heh.

···

On 11/15/06, m44rt3n@yahoo.com <m44rt3n@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I have a problem using unicode characters in the windows command.

As a very simple example, when I type this:

H:\>ruby -e 'puts "rien à faire"'

I will get the following:

rien Ó faire

Does anyone know what causes this?
When I run my scripts from Scite, this problem doesn't come up.

3

Please search the archives. There was a discussion about the
limitations of cmd.exe and Unicode. What you want generally can't be
done from the command-line in Windows.

-austin

···

On 11/15/06, m44rt3n@yahoo.com <m44rt3n@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I have a problem using unicode characters in the windows command.

As a very simple example, when I type this:

H:\>ruby -e 'puts "rien à faire"'

I will get the following:

rien Ó faire

Does anyone know what causes this?
When I run my scripts from Scite, this problem doesn't come up.

--
Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/
               * austin@halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/
               * austin@zieglers.ca

4

Thanks, this got me on my way.

It seems this works:

require 'iconv'
puts Iconv.new("ibm850","iso-8859-1").iconv("rien à faire")

···

On Nov 15, 5:48 pm, "Austin Ziegler" <halosta...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 11/15/06, m44r...@yahoo.com <m44r...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all,

> I have a problem usingunicodecharacters in the windows command.

> As a very simple example, when I type this:

> H:\>ruby -e 'puts "rien à faire"'

> I will get the following:

> rien Ó faire

> Does anyone know what causes this?
> When I run my scripts from Scite, this problem doesn't come up.Please search the archives. There was a discussion about the
limitations ofcmd.exeandUnicode. What you want generally can't be
done from the command-line in Windows.

-austin
--
Austin Ziegler * halosta...@gmail.com *http://www.halostatue.ca/
               * aus...@halostatue.ca *http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/
               * aus...@zieglers.ca