[rspec-users] Foreign characters in strings

[Dave]

Hi there,

I have a test that checks to make sure a string has been
URI.unescape'd. I'm testing two different strings. One string that I'm
dealing with contains foreign characters, and the other string
contains 'regular' English characters. Here are the tests:

describe Song, "should be valid" do
  before(:each) do
    @song = Song.new
  end

  it "when location= has been sanitized dealing with foreign characters" do
    @song.location =
"file://localhost/Users/dave/Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Music/Sigur%20Ros/Agaetis%20Byrjun/05%20Ny%CC%81%20batteri%CC%81.m4a"
    @song.save
    @song.location.should == "/Users/dave/Music/iTunes/iTunes
Music/Sigur Ros/Agaetis Byrjun/05 Ný batterí.m4a"
  end

  it "when location= has been sanitized dealing with non-foreign characters" do
    @song.location =
"file://localhost/Users/dave/Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Music/Mogwai/Mr.%20Beast/Travel%20Is%20Dangerous.mp3"
    @song.save
    @song.location.should eql("/Users/dave/Music/iTunes/iTunes
Music/Mogwai/Mr. Beast/Travel Is Dangerous.mp3")
  end

end

Here's the following error I get when running the example:

when location= has been sanitized dealing with foreign characters
expected: "/Users/dave/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Sigur Ros/Agaetis
Byrjun/05 Ný batterí.m4a",
     got: "/Users/dave/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Sigur Ros/Agaetis
Byrjun/05 Ný batterí.m4a" (using ==)

And for what it's worth, here's the location= method:

def location=(location)
  self[:location] = URI.unescape(location).gsub!("file://localhost", "")
end

Obviously those strings are not equal in the result above, but when I
view the output using Textmate's Rspec bundle, I see this:
<a 
href="http://antrover.com/data/rspec_results.png";>http://antrover.com/data/rspec_results.png</a>
(screenshot)

The strings look identical using Textmate's Rspec bundle until I copy
and paste the output into some other text editor only to reveal the
fact the strings are not equal. This leads me to believe there's an
encoding issue somewhere, but I'm not sure where. Textmate and the
terminal are both in UTF8.

When I copy the above error message into vim from Textmate's Rspec
bundle I see this:
expected: "/Users/dave/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Sigur Ros/Agaetis
Byrjun/05 Ný batterí.m4a",
got: "/Users/dave/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Sigur Ros/Agaetis
Byrjun/05 Ny?~A batteri?~A.m4a" (using ==)

Anyone have any ideas on how to make this (simple!) test pass with
flying colors?

Thank you,
Dave
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