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I’m just starting to learn Ruby and have a problem with encoding;
require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'
agent = Mechanize.new
agent.get('myurl.....')
agent.page.search('#reciperesult a').each do |item|
c = Mechanize.new
c.get(item.attributes['href'])
puts c.page.search('#ingredients li').text
end
The output text are shown like this h├©nsekj├©tt when it should have been shown like this hønsekjøtt. I’m using Ruby 1.8.7. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
Where are you viewing the output? Is it on the console? If so, are you running Windows XP? I have found that on my Windows setup the console (I do my development in the Git+ terminal) it does not show non-ascii characters correctly. On the terminal on my Mac they show fine.
If you suspect that this is the problem then write the output to a file and then view that file in a text editor. This should show you the correct output.