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Asked: 2026-05-25T14:59:09+00:00

I have a XML that contains also Hebrew characters, but when typing (the Windows

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I have a XML that contains also Hebrew characters, but when typing (the Windows ‘CAT’) it to the screen – it shows Gibrish. So, I installed Console2 and changed encoding (chcp) to either 862 or 1255 and then it is shown well, but then, when trying to parse it either using Nokogiri or REXML – it throws an exception – “malformed xml: missing tag start”.

So, if anyone that knows how to get out of this mess, can guide me what to save in which encoding, and to get this work because I search the whole Web without a suitable solution.

I am using Windows XP 32 bit.
My Ruby IDE is Aptana 3, and the Ruby versio is 1.8.7

Can anyone please help me here?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ruby 1.8.7 is known to have problems with the encoding. There is a similar question here (see “Encoding in Ruby 1.8.7 or 1.9.2”) which may help you to find the way. So install the gem character-encodings and require it in your ruby file. Then prefix the string you want to handle with u'myStrüng' (I have used a German Umlaut here as example).

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