On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Seth Thomas Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:14 AM, _why <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 04:00:42PM -0400, Seth Thomas Rasmussen wrote: >>> My app crashes when trying to render this text with the latest Shoes >>> and OS X 10.4.11: >>> >>> "Rails Summit Latin America - Oct 15-16, 2008 - S\343o Paulo, Brasil - >>> http://tinyurl.com/3rcv62"; >> >> This is latin-1 encoding. Try the string: >> >> "Rails Summit Latin America - Oct 15-16, 2008 - S\xC3\xA3o Paulo, Brasil - >> http://tinyurl.com/3rcv62"; > > Aha. I am clearly no master of encodings. Twitter API gives one HTML > entities for these special characters for some reason, so I was just > doing ye old CGI.unescapeHTML() and hoping for the best.
For what it's worth, I had added code to use this library but commented it out.. http://po-ru.com/projects/html-entities/ Took the plunge, and some things are improved, although I am still having problems with some Japanese characters it seems. Maybe just a font problem. HTMLEntities decodes to UTF though, so it's a better situation than CGI I think. -- Seth Thomas Rasmussen http://greatseth.com
