Okay a preface, I wish to keep this as simple as possible, so I’m trying
to work off the basic ruby library with no gems installed (would not
have a problem with this however)
Basically, I wish to have the program prompt the user for a keyword to
search by, all is well with my app, except I have no idea how to
implement a way for the input to be in chinese/japanese/korean
so something along the lines of:
$kcode = ‘u’
require ‘iconv’
print "please enter search parameter: "
stdout.flush
search = gets.chomp
now I tried using Iconv.new(‘Big5’, ‘UTF-8’).Iconv(search) <–where
search is asian characters, at least before ruby gets a hold of them
… but this really does nothing. How can I get that user input of
chinese/japanese/korean characters to be stored for use later on (to
split/concatenate to other strings etc)
again, not in rails so most previous topics don’t cater to this sort of
idea. thanks