[fxruby-users] FXRuby1.6.5 ?

[Ernest Ellingson]

Here's the direct reference to my code.

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/27298

I know this is code for converting a file, but constructing a utf8 
string from unicode is straight forward in the code.

If his problem is a simple Lyle describes.  Then do this
look up the character in the character set.

http://www.kostis.net/charsets/iso8859.5.htm

Find the decimal value for the character.

c=[decimal value of character].pack('U')

for example
the decimal value for CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IO is 161  in iso8859-5  
(a one byte representation of the character)
In order to get the utf-8 representation  you have to convert the one 
byte representation to a two or more byte representation based on the 
utf-8 rules.
Ruby does this with array.pack

c=[161].pack('U")   => "\302\241"

The result is the octal values for the two bytes required in this case.

That's all he has to do.

Ernie
Lyle Johnson wrote:
>
> On Feb 6, 2007, at 10:09 PM, Ernest Ellingson wrote:
>
>>     This might help you.
>> It's a message from me in Dec. 2001 to the ruby-talk forumn
>>
>> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/vframe.rb?key=unicode&cginame=namazu.rb&submit=Search&dbname=ruby-talk&max=50&whence=0
>>
>> You should be able to convert unicode to utf8 using the code snippet 
>> there.  REXML incorporates that code into its parsers.
>
> Thanks, Ernie, but I believe the problem that Aleksey is dealing with 
> is that he has (literal) strings in ISO-8859-5 (Latin/Cyrillic) 
> encoding, and he's wanting to pass those directly into FXRuby (e.g. as 
> the label for a button). However, as best I understand it, FOX expects 
> those strings to be UTF-8 encoded Unicode, so Aleksey needs to do 
> something to convert his ISO-8859-5-encoded strings into UTF-8 encoded 
> Unicode, e.g.
>
> require 'iconv'
>
> button = FXButton.new(p, Iconv.new("iso-8859-8", 
> "utf-8").iconv(original_russian_text), ...)
>
> -- Lyle
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