Again: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII

Ruby
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Hello everybody,

again I have problems with the f.ckn german umlauts :wink: This time within
a cgi script.

I try to parse the output from a shell script, e.g.: ‘Ich habe viele
Wünsche’
While reading ruby (1.9.2) complains with “invalid byte sequence in
US-ASCII” so I tried to enforce utf8.
Now the reading works, but on my website I get the output “Ich habe
viele W\u00FCnsche”

Do You have a hint for me?

Thanks a lot,
greetings
Sven

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Content preview: Hi, On 01.05.2011 13:11, Sven K. wrote: > I try
to parse
the output from a shell script, e.g.: ‘Ich habe viele > Wünsche’ >
While
reading ruby (1.9.2) complains with “invalid byte sequence in >
US-ASCII”
so I tried to enforce utf8. > Now the reading works, but on my
website I
get the output “Ich habe > viele W\u00FCnsche” > > Do You have a hint
for
me? […]

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Hi,

On 01.05.2011 13:11, Sven K. wrote:

I try to parse the output from a shell script, e.g.: ‘Ich habe viele
Wünsche’
While reading ruby (1.9.2) complains with “invalid byte sequence in
US-ASCII” so I tried to enforce utf8.
Now the reading works, but on my website I get the output “Ich habe
viele W\u00FCnsche”

Do You have a hint for me?

Could you provide a short self-contained example?

thx

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Oh my good, I am such an idiot. Forgive me for steeling Your time!
Here is the solution:
Put this in the html header:

So just to explain for future reference: I got the input from the bash.
Ruby expects us-ascii, therefore I enforced utf-8:
string.force_encoding(‘utf-8’)
The next step is to enforce the webbrowser to use utf-8 for reading the
site. That is done by the charset-option in the content directive:

Again: so sorry, that was such a silly mistake!

Have a nice weekend,
best,
Sven